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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amount given was based upon an estimate drawn up by President Lowell and his advisors and submitted to Mr. Harkness. In a letter to President Lowell, the donor stated his willingness to give the necessary amount, which includes the $3,000,000 already received from him for the establishment of the first two Houses. In the total figure is also included an endowment fund of $1,500,000 to be utilized in connection with the plan. The balance will be employed in the construction of other units and the renovation of College buildings now in use in order to bring...
...last week when Mr. Rockefeller Jr. was gazing at the Rock of Gibraltar, en route to Egypt on an expedition with famed Digger James Henry Breasted of the University of Chicago, the Rockefeller office in Manhattan made public a letter which he had written to the stockholders of Standard Oil of Indiana...
...letter, Mr. Rockefeller Jr. told how he had lost confidence in Colonel Stewart's leadership because of Colonel Stewart's testimony before the Senate Committee on Public Lands, concerning the oil scandals; how he had asked for Colonel Stewart's resignation last April; how Colonel Stewart has continued to ignore his request. "I am therefore," wrote Mr. Rockefeller Jr., "asking the stockholders of the company to join me in opposing his re-election...
...Practically, Wall Street estimated that previous to the Rockefeller letter, only 17% of Standard Oil of Indiana stock was in Rockefeller hands, while Colonel Stewart and allies controlled...
...Standard Oil Co. of Indiana has issued 9,160,000 shares of capital stock. †President E. G. Seubert of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana was mentioned in the Rockefeller letter as a "loyal and devoted" leader. But he had long been considered a Stewart man. Now he may be the crux of the battle...