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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into a yellowed, two-story frame house at Endicott, N. Y. one day last week a delegation bore 18,000 cards and stacked them on a table before the old man who lives there. "From a loyal E. J. worker to our friend George F.," read each of the cards. "On this Thanksgiving we are thankful. We want you to be thankful with us." Thankful with them was George F. (for Francis) Johnson, cofounder and board chairman of Endicott Johnson Corp., second largest shoe manufacturing company...
...after nine months of study, first went to Mr. McAneny through Edward F. ("Eddy") Roosevelt (a distant, cosmopolite cousin) with plans for reclaiming the land, pumping up new land, dredging channels, etc. etc. When more prominent persons became interested, complained Engineer Shadgen, he had been shunted aside. A lawyer friend of Maestro Whalen's had persuaded him to sign away his rights to the Fair idea and accept instead a $625-a-month job at which he spent ten months "sharpening pencils" before he was fired, angry and humiliated. Engineer Shadgen was now suing the Fair...
...parks. Grandstanding District Attorney Buron Fitts then joined the graft hunt, impaneled a grand jury. First graft flushed was in the civil service examinations for promotions in the police and fire departments. When an influential Mexican-born police lieutenant named Peter ("The Thin Man") Del Gado, a great friend of Police Chief James Edgar Davis, denied taking bribes to tamper the examinations, he was indicted for perjury. Last fortnight Thin Man Del Gado gave a friend $15,000 to pay his bail bond, disappeared...
...indeed made a challenge, but Mr. Hopkins wrote again to the Times, again disowning the quotation. This time Mr. Krock replied: "I saw him [Mr. Hopkins] on ... the very day of the publication to which he now so violently objects, and he said nothing about it at all. The friend who quoted Mr. Hopkins as substantially repeated is of excellent repute and not at all hard of hearing. ... I learned his identity in confidence...
...Rockefeller did get is unknown, but in his long lifetime he gave $530,000,000 to individuals and institutions and even more to his own family (in 1921 John D. Rockefeller Jr. held $410,674,000 in Standard Oil stock alone). Of his devotion to his "duty," his old friend Marcus Alonzo Hanna said: "Sane in every respect but one-he is money mad." The new-minted dimes and nickels he gave away were stuffed into his trouser pockets every morning by his valet, $5 a day. Bestowing them, he always admonished: "Save...