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Identifier: financialgiantso00redm2 (find matches)
Title: Financial giants of America
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Redmond, George F
Subjects: Capitalists and financiers
Publisher: Boston, Mass., The Stratford company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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cold and forbidding facadeseeming to rebuke the headless levity of the passing crowd,and to frown on the frivolity of the stray sunbeams which inthe late afternoon play around its impressive cornices. Thethree men in 1 899 who were at the head of Standard Oil wereHenry H. Rogers, William Rockefeller and John D. Rocke-feller. Those were the only three men who could lend thename Standard Oil** even in the most remote way to anyproject. Sometimes John D. Rockefeller used the name alone (164) WILLIAM A. ROCKEFELLER in projects in which Henry H. Rogers and William Rockefellerhad no interest. Henry Rogers or William Rockefeller seldomor ever used the name in projects with which neither of theother two was associated. Sometimes, but not often, John D.and William Rockefeller used the name in connection withprojects of their own in which Hfenry H. Rogers had no inter-est. Henry H. Rogers and John D. Rockefeller never wereassociated in projects in which William Rockefeller had nointerest. (165)
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LOUIS FRANKLIN SWIFT Louis Franklin Sivift started his successfulcareer at the very bottom of the ladder. He learnedall departments of the packing industry thoroughly. His hoihy is flowers—and his interests otherthan in business are varied and many. He rubsshoulders daily with his men, and knows thestrength that lies in co-operation. LOUIS F. SWIFT WHEN an employe of Swift & Co. wants to talk withthe president, he knows just where to find him,and he knows that he will find him accessible at alltimes. Louis Franklin Swift, president of Swift & Company,had his business training under the eye of his father. GustavusF. Swift, founder of the packing business which bears his name,who believed in open spaces and in working in the open; andthe son has carried that belief along during the years whichhe has conducted the great packing business. Born in September, 1861, at Sagamore, on Cape Cod,w^here as a boy he found much opportunity for swimming andsailing, Louis F. Swift has held h

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