Word: meyers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conspicuously absent from this friendly, oily shooting party was Charles F. Meyer, president of Standard Oil of New York, officially at peace with Sir Henri, actually the bitter commercial enemy of Dutch Shell...
...reported "stabilized." The war was declared at an end. Observers recalled that Chairman Herbert L. Pratt of the Standard Oil of N. Y. had been a recent European tourist, had probably met Sir Henri and patched a peace. Also, the peace follows quickly on the election of Charles F. Meyer to the presidency of Standard of N. Y. Meyer and Deterding had strangely parallel careers, East & West (TIME, April...
...seemed reasonable to suppose that Chairman Pratt & President Meyer had offered some concessions and suggested others. For example: 1) withdrawal of Dutch Shell objections to Russian oil in India, together with an end of the price war, and, 2) a promise by Standard Oil to press the Soviets to pay Dutch Shell and other owners for their seized and confiscated property. If that were accomplished, observers noted, Russian oil would no longer be "stolen." Standard Oil no longer would be an international fence in the eyes of Sir Henri. And Standard Oil would "carry out contracts," would not be "swerved...
...Amschel the Younger, head of the House, and to consult the aged Gudula, Die Uralte, an illiterate Sibyl who had vowed never to quit her chair by the window "save only for the tomb." Finally, although Count Corti does not note it, 46 of the descendants of Meyer Amschel had intermarried before the 19th century was out, in a burst of shocking eugenics and sound economics...
...family was fitted and welded, smoothed and polished, so was the Fortune. Little by little, Meyer Amschel wormed his way into the financial counsels of William IV, Elector of Hesse, until at length he held the strings of that ruler's considerable money bags. The needs of princes first, and later the needs of governments, were the opportunities of the Rothschilds. The wars of the Allies against Napoleon, the collection of the French indemnity, the efforts of Metternich to crush every outbreak of liberal ideas-all these required money. The Rothschilds provided it, at a profit...