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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honestly can and to give all he can." Just how much 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...
Billionaire Rockefeller retained at his death only $26,410,837, almost entirely in easily convertible corporate and Government securities, including only one sentimental share of Standard Oil Company of California and just about enough U. S. Treasury notes to pay his last taxes: $4,385,000 to New York State, $12,245,000 to the U. S. Treasury. Principal individual beneficiary under his will was Mrs. Margaret Strong de Cuevas, daughter of his eldest daughter Bessie, who died before Rockefeller divided his wealth among his children. Heroically singleminded, he showed no attachment to the things money can buy. He sold...
Boccherini: Concerto in B Flat Major for Cello and Orchestra (London Symphony, Sir Landon Ronald conducting, with Pablo Casals; Victor: 6 sides). Sixty-one-year-old Casals, playing one of the most venerable of the standard cello concertos, proves that he is still the world's No. 1 cellist; accompaniment, spotty...
...under special circumstances. Management generally thinks of it from one of four angles-promotion of employe security, improvement of employe-owner relations, solution of social problems, or as an incentive to increase production. Labor leaders dislike it because it makes unionization more difficult; causes particular companies to deviate from standard union wage scales; represents deferred compensation which workers would rather have weekly; and, finally, opens the way to loss-sharing...
...reasons. For one thing the nature of the business was germane to boom times, not bad times. Delivering a jar of caviar to goth Street was all very well; not so a loaf of bread, a pound of coffee. And chains-with low overhead, mass purchases and many good standard brands-cut in plenty...