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...Tarbell planned three articles on the Standard Oil Company, wrote 19, worked five years on them. Standard Oil officials sometimes secretly aided her, radical associates whispered that she was "going over to the Standard." Henry Flagler, Standard official, complained of John D. Rockefeller: "He would do me out of a dollar today," then caught himself and added hastily, "that is, if he could do it honestly." McClure's flourished as the articles appeared, went on growing until McClure announced his biggest idea: a chain of commercial companies, a model community. Steffens, Tarbell, a McClure partner, several staff members, resigned...
...room, the gift of Harry Harkness Flagler, nephew of Edward Harkness, and Standard Oil executive, is expected to care for the large overflow of poetry material now in the library, and also to provide a place in which recordings of the works of modern poets can be heard without disturbing those wanting to read...
...When Flagler donated the money in 1931 for the construction of a section of Widener to be devoted entirely to verse, he did so with the understanding that when the University saw fit to vacate the adjoining room, it would be added to the Poetry Room...
...seen lurking by the road. Secret Service and police quickly threw a cordon around the President and beat the thick scrub for the lurker. He escaped, nothing happened. The President entered his car and rode 140 miles over the trestles built by the late Rail Tycoon Henry M. Flagler to lace the Florida Keys, converted by PWA from a defunct railroad into a $3,600,000 motor highway. At Key West, which WPA saved from indigent desuetude, Mayor Willard M. Albury and Admiral William Leahy sat beside the President as he delivered two backseat radio talks in rapid succession...
...shrimp fishers followed. For a time the U. S. planned to make it an American Gibraltar. In 1896. Key West's prosperity was at its peak, its population at an all-time high of 25,000 and it was the biggest, richest city in Florida. But despite Henry Flagler's railroad population began to decline, is now down to 13,000. Rehabilitated in 1934 by the U. S. Government, the town was set back again by the 1935 storm, but in the three years since has blossomed as a resort, wintering 3,000 northerners, visited...