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Lords of Creation

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by Frederick Lewis Allen


  Equitable Trust Co., 326

  Erie R. R., 80, 297, 299, 300, 350

  Esch-Cummins Act, 218

  Evers, Frank R., 285

  Ewing, William, 368

  Farmers Loan & Trust Co., 176, 177, 326

  Farrell, James A., 368

  Federal Farm Board, 411

  Federal Reserve Act, 177, 190, 199

  Federal Reserve Board, 199, 318, 360, 361, 413, 415, 439, 461

  Federal Reserve System, 119, 141, 190, 191, 197, 200, 219, 307, 309, 360, 424 425, 439, 440, 449

  Federal Steel Company, 14, 27, 28

  Federal Trade Commission, 191, 226, 287, 288, 290

  Federal Trade Commission Act, 190, 191, 194, 226

  Filbert, William J., 136

  First National Bank, 79, 80, 83, 127, 128, 174, 177, 452

  First National Bank of Chicago, 174

  First Security Co., 174, 176

  First Trust & Savings Bank, 174

  Fish, Mrs. Stuyvesant, 371

  Fisher, Albert J., 368

  Fisher, Charles T., 368

  Fisher, Edward F., 368

  Fisher, Fred J., 368

  Fisher, Howard, 368

  Fisher, Lawrence P., 368

  Fisher, William A., 368

  Fisk, James, 293

  Flint, Charles R., 13

  Flynn, John T., 87, 90, 260, 268, 281, 341, 352, 354

  Ford, Henry, 15, 21, 22, 110, 170, 171, 235, 365, 366, 368, 424

  Ford Motor Co., 170, 243

  French, Elsie, 100

  Frew, Walter, E., 368

  Frick, H. C., 15, 39, 40, 74, 83, 84, 108, 110, 139, 140, 165

  Frick, H. C., Coke Co., 15

  Gary, Elbert H., 27, 34, 36, 37, 83, 136, 137, 139, 140, 165, 216

  Gates, John W., 13–17, 21–25, 27, 28, 30, 38, 39, 67, 76, 77, 84, 107

  General Asphalt pool, 357

  General Electric Co., 80, 82, 163, 171, 177, 272, 400, 417, 463

  General Mills, Inc., 314

  General Motors Co., 170

  General Motors Corp., 243, 350, 384, 417, 462

  General Securities Corp., 299, 300

  George, Henry, 147, 151

  Gerard, James W., 367, 368

  Gerry, Elbridge, 104, 110

  Giannini, Amadeo P., 319–326, 331, 346, 359. 364, 368, 370, 417

  Giannini, Attilio H., 319

  Gibson, Harvey D., 368

  Gifford, Walter S., 368

  Gilbert, S. Parker, 345

  Glass, Carter, 177, 199

  Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 440

  Goelets, The, 104

  Gompers, Samuel, 147, 161, 194

  Gossler, P. G., 368

  Gould, George J., 16, 53, 74, 81, 105

  Gould, Jay, 44, 53, 72, 81, 293

  Gould, Vivien, 105

  Grace, Eugene G., 208, 368

  Great Northern R. R., 44, 50, 64, 81

  Green, William, 368

  Guaranty Trust Co., 176, 177, 323, 326, 396

  Guardian Detroit Union Group, Inc., 325, 326, 423

  Guardian Trust Co. (of Cleveland), 332

  Guggenheim, Daniel, 368

  Hacker, Louis M., 160

  Hadley, Arthur T., 33

  Halsey, Stuart & Co., 247, 285

  Hanna, Mark, 2, 18, 65, 67, 68, 85, 220

  Harding, Warren G., 193, 220–222, 297

  Harriman, Edward Henry, 42, 43, 45–61, 64, 65, 67, 69, 70, 74, 77, 81, 83, 85, 86, 89, 90, 97, 99, 106, 114, 129, 130, 142, 156, 171, 176, 183, 189, 282, 293

  Harvey, William H., 147

  Hatry collapse, 393

  Hay, John, 85

  Hayden, Charles, 259, 368

  Haywood, William (Big Bill), 152, 153

  Hearst, William Randolph, 150, 368, 450

  Heinze, F. Augustus, 112, 115, 118, 119, 120, 121, 124, 126, 142

  Heinze, Otto, & Co., 118, 119

  Hendrick, Burton J., 21, 26

  Hepburn Act, 114, 153, 159

  Higginson, Henry Lee, 83, 159

  Hill, David B., 151

  Hill, George W., 368

  Hill, James J., 44, 50–56, 58–60, 64, 70, 81, 83, 282

  Hocking Valley R. R., 300

  Holmes, R. C., 368

  Hoover, Herbert C., 205, 222, 228, 229, 236, 350, 365, 391, 398, 399, 408, 410–417, 420–422, 425–428, 442, 456

  Horner, Henry, 425

  Houston, David F., 368, 379

  Howard, George H., 368

  Howard, Roy W., 368

  Hughes, Charles Evans, 150–152, 204, 365

  Hyde, James Hazen, 109

  Illinois Central R. R., 43

  Industrial Commission, 66

  Insull, Samuel, 230, 247, 266–286, 289, 292, 301, 302, 319, 322, 348, 350, 358, 365, 368, 370, 390, 408, 417

  Insull, Mrs. Samuel, 281, 346, 347

  Insull Utilities Investments, Inc., 247, 278–280, 282, 283, 285, 358

  International Harvester Co., 80, 163, 177

  International Mercantile Marine, 57, 76, 80, 151, 186

  International Workers of the World, 152, 161

  Interstate Commerce Commission, 153, 218, 293, 296

  Jackling, Daniel C., 368

  James, Arthur Curtiss, 368, 375

  Jerome, Jennie, 105

  Johnson, George F., 384

  Johnson, Hugh S., 437, 438, 444, 450, 453

  Johnson, Tom L., 148, 151

  Jones, Samuel (“Golden Rule”), 148, 151

  Joslyn, C. S., 369

  Kahn, Otto, 344, 365, 368, 377

  Keene, Foxhall, 102, 103

  Keene, James R., 33, 34, 71, 83, 85, 86, 102

  Kendrick, Benjamin B., 160

  Kennan, George, 47

  Kidder, Peabody & Co., 82

  Kimball, Pres., of 7th National Bank, 65

  King, Edward, 138

  Kingsley, Darwin P., 368

  Kipling, Rudyard, 3

  Kiplinger’s Washington Letter, 453

  Knickerbocker Trust Co., 122, 124–126

  Kohlsaat, H. H., 67

  Kreuger, Ivar, 408, 418

  Kruttschnitt, Julius, 46, 47

  Kuhn, Loeb & Co., 45, 49, 50, 54, 62, 64, 81–83, 86, 257, 258, 337, 344, 460

  Kuznets, Simon, 409

  Lackawanna Steel Co., 177

  La Follette, Robert M., 85, 147, 148, 151, 156, 158, 161, 162, 164, 165, 223, 228, 269, 365, 421

  La Follette Seamen’s Act, 194

  Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines, 29

  Lamont, Thomas W., 138, 201, 203, 315, 345, 346, 364, 365, 368, 396

  Lapowski, Samuel, 370

  Lawrence, Bishop William, 88, 123, 124

  Lawson, Thomas W., 150

  League of Nations, 214

  Ledyard, Lewis Cass, 136

  Lee Higginson & Co., 82

  Leeds, William B., 77

  Lefévre, Edwin, 113

  Leffingwell, Russell C., 368

  Le Gallienne, Eva, 377

  Lehman, Arthur, 368

  Lehman, Herbert, 425

  Lehr, Mr. and Mrs. Harry, 109

  Liberty Loans, 205, 206, 211, 212, 219, 220, 310, 350

  Liberty National Bank, 79, 177

  Lincoln Trust Co., 129

  Lippmann, Walter, 416, 421, 454

  Lloyd, Henry Demarest, 145, 147

  Lloyd, Horatio G., 357

  Loeb, William, 368

  Long, Huey, 448

  Loree, Leonor F., 368

  Louisville & Nashville R. R., 76, 77

  Lovett, Robert S., 49, 52

  Lowden, Frank O., 271

  Lowenthal, Max, 257

  McAllister, Ward, 101

  McClure, Samuel S., 148, 149

  McClure’s Magazine, 76

  McCormick, Robert R., 368

  McKinley, William, 2, 3, 18, 28, 65–67, 85, 220

  McNamara brothers, The, 161

  Maine Central R. R., 173

  Marcus, Bernard, 328–332

  Marcus, Joseph, 328


  Marlborough, Duke of, 105

  Means, Gardiner C., 239, 240, 244, 300, 407, 462

  Meehan, M. J., & Co., 357

  Mellen, Charles S., 172

  Mellon, Andrew W., 83, 84, 222, 229, 360, 365, 368, 410, 418

  Mencken, H. L., 366

  Mercantile National Bank, 119, 121

  Merriam, C. Hart, 42

  Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., 241

  Mexican Petroleum Co., 216

  Middle West Utilities Co., 247, 269, 270, 275, 276, 279, 280

  Mills, Frederick, 407

  Mills, Ogden, 104, 110

  Minas Geraes, Bonds of, 316

  Missouri-Kansas-Texas R. R., 314

  Missouri Pacific R. R., 298, 299, 302, 303

  Mitchell, Charles E., 304, 305, 311–319. 323, 324, 386, 331, 346, 349. 358, 365. 368, 396, 426

  Mitchell, Sidney Z., 272, 368

  “Money Trust” investigation (see Pujo inquiry)

  Montgomery Ward stock, 396

  Moore, James, 13–15, 21, 22, 30, 77

  Moore, William H., 13, 14–17, 21, 22, 29, 30, 77

  Moore & Schley, 71, 135–137, 139, 140

  Morgan, John Pierpont (The Elder), 1, 4, 13–29, 33, 34, 36, 37, 40, 41, 45, 49–54, 56–61, 64–70, 74, 76, 77, 80, 81, 83, 85–90, 95, 97, 99, 102, 105–108, 123–125, 128–138, 140–142, 160, 171–187, 189, 197, 200, 201, 204, 239, 254, 264, 293, 337, 463

  Morgan, John Pierpont (The Younger), 200, 201, 206, 216, 344, 365, 368, 370, 373, 375, 377, 379

  Morgan, J. P., & Co., 13, 34, 41, 50, 54, 56, 62, 64, 79, 80, 120, 126–129, 131, 140, 142, 151, 160, 175–180, 182, 185, 186, 195, 198, 200–207, 211, 212, 264, 297, 298, 300, 302, 303, 315, 316, 337–339, 344–348, 357, 360, 368, 396, 417, 422, 440, 445, 460, 461

  Morgan, Junius S., 368, 370

  Morgan, House of, (see Morgan, J. P., & Company)

  Morse, Charles W., 116, 117, 119–124, 126, 142

  Moyer, Charles, 152

  Mumford, Lewis, 106, 107

  Munsey, Frank A., 149

  Mutual Life Insurance Co., 176

  Myers, Gustavus, 105

  National Bank of Commerce, 79, 122, 176, 177

  National Bureau of Economic Research, 409

  National Cash Register Co., 163

  National City Bank, 13, 52 53, 81, 83, 120, 128, 136, 142, 174–177, 198, 206, 304, 312, 313, 316–319, 323, 324, 326, 332, 396, 426, 440, 457

  National City Co., 304, 311–314, 316–319, 331, 440

  National Dairy Products Corp., 256

  National Electric Power Co., 247, 274–276, 279

  National Public Service Corp., 247, 279

  National Recovery Administration, 436–438, 443–445. 450, 451, 456, 462

  National Securities & Exchange Act, 441, 451, 452, 460

  National Steel Co., 14, 28

  National Tube Company, 14, 16, 28

  New England Public Service Co., 279

  New Haven R. R. (see New York, New Haven, & Hartford R. R.) New York Central R. R., 82, 110, 294, 295, 296, 417

  New York, Chicago, & St. Louis R. R. (see Nickel Plate R. R.)

  New York City financing, 133

  New York Life Insurance Co., 80, 151, 160, 176, 241

  New York, New Haven, & Hartford R. R., 80, 172, 173, 183, 186

  New York, Ontario, & Western R. R., 173

  New York State Railways, 290

  New York Stock Exchange (see Stock Exchange, New York)

  Nickel Plate R. R., 294–299

  Nickel Plate Securities Corp., 295

  Nodder, Charles, 388

  Norris, George W., 365

  North American Co., 290

  Northern Pacific Panic, 49–66, 70, 73, 95, 149, 350

  Northern Pacific R. R., 44, 49, 50, 52 68, 70, 77, 80, 81, 183

  Northern Securities Co., 64, 68, 69, 74, 75, 77, 81, 153, 155, 244

  Norton, E. L., 58, 59, 60

  Noyes, Alexander Dana, 44, 169, 211, 359

  Nye report, 209

  O’Brien, Morgan J., 136

  Ochs, Adolph S., 368

  Oliver Iron Mining Co., 15

  Oregon Short Line, 45

  Panic of 1907 111–143, 159, 169, 170, 174, 439

  Panic of 1929 392–398, 417

  Parker, Alton B., 74, 85

  Patterson, Joseph Medill, 368

  Pecora. Ferdinand, 317, 335, 382, 445

  Pederson, Victoria J., 408

  Pennroad Corp., 337

  Pennsylvania R. R., 139, 248, 249, 296

  Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co., 278

  Pere Marquette R. R., 297, 300, 350

  Perkins, George W., 77, 79, 126–128, 131, 132, 136, 140, 151, 160, 166

  Peruvian bonds, 316

  Pettibone, George A., 152

  Phillips, David Graham, 150

  Plumb plan, 214

  Populists, 145, 146

  Porter, William H., 176

  Potter, William C., 368, 396

  Pringle, Henry F., 153

  Procter, William Cooper, 384

  “Prosperity League,” 169

  Prosser, Seward, 368, 396

  Prudential Life Insurance Co., 241

  Public Service Co. of Northern 111,. 278

  Pujo, Arsène, 177

  Pujo inquiry, 41, 78, 176–189, 191, 192, 200, 226, 254, 439, 445

  Pullman Co., 177, 256

  Radio Corporation of America, 255, 350, 357, 395, 396, 417

  Radio pool, 357

  Rainsford, Dr. William S., 88

  Raskob, John J., 357, 364, 368, 370

  Reader’s Guide, 84, 365

  Reading R. R., 80

  Reconstruction Finance Corp., 409, 414, 415, 417, 422, 424

  Reed, Thomas B., 85

  Reid, Daniel G., 13, 77, 83

  Reynolds, Jackson E., 368, 452

  “Rich Men’s Panic,” 72, 73, 77

  Ripley, William Z., 276, 291

  Ritchie, Albert C., 365, 425

  “Rock Island crowd,” 77, 82

  Rock Island R. R., 77

  Rockefeller Foundation, 189

  Rockefeller, John D., 5–7, 29, 57, 66, 76, 83, 85–91, 97, 99, 102, 110, 129, 130, 132, 189, 367

  Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 99, 110, 250, 261, 364, 368, 370

  Rockefeller, John D. III, 99

  Rockefeller, Percy A., 259, 357, 368, 370

  Rockefeller, William, 13, 57, 64, 72, 83, 85, 86, 88, 99, 110, 115, 142, 172, 189

  Rockefeller, William G., 110

  Rogers, H. H., 13, 21, 22, 36, 72, 74, 83, 85, 86, 94, 95, 99, 115, 116, 142, 189

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 382, 416, 419–423, 425, 427–431, 433–436, 442, 443, 445, 446, 449–453, 455–457

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 19, 28, 66–68, 73, 74, 80, 85, 114, 130, 139, 140, 148–150, 153–162, 164–167, 191, 193, 194, 204, 269, 439

  Root, Elihu, 19

  Rosenwald, Julius, 368

  “Rule of Reason,” 163, 164, 167

  Russell, Bertrand, 93

  Russo-Japanese War, 113

  Ryan, John D., 368

  Ryan, Thomas Fortune, 83, 176, 184

  Sage, Russell, 63

  San Francisco earthquake, 113

  San Pedro route, 81

  Sarnoff, David, 357

  Sarnoff, Mrs. David, 357

  Saxe, John Godfrey, 464

  Schiff, Jacob, 45, 50, 53–58, 62, 64, 83, 85, 86, 89, 97–99, 105, 106, 344

  Schiff, Mortimer L., 368

  Schley, Grant B., 135–137

  Schwab, Charles M., 1, 4, 16, 18–27, 34, 35, 39, 69–83, 171, 368, 418

  Scott, Howard, 420

  Seaboard Service Co., 247, 278

  Securities Act of 1933 440, 441, 451

  Securities & Exchange Commission, 441, 451, 460

  Senate Banking & Currency Committee, 302, 303, 334, 337, 352, 353, 445

  Sherman Act, 7–9, 36, 66, 68, 146, 153, 162, 163–165, 173, 190, 191, 218, 225, 227

  Shermar Corp., 356

  She
rrod, Julian, 313

  Sielcken, Herman, 71

  Simmons, E. H. H., 368

  Simmons, J. Edward, 1, 19, 20

  Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp., 356–358

  Sinclair Consolidated Oil pool, 356, 357

  Sinclair, Harry F., 356

  Sinclair, Upton, 150, 448

  Singer, Saul, 328–332

  Skibo Castle, 16, 37, 38

  Sloan, Alfred P., Jr., 368

  Sloan, Matthew S., 368

  Smith, Alfred E., 228, 229, 350, 365

  Smith, Charles Stewart, 1, 19, 20

  Social Register, 98, 99

  Soule, George, 411, 415

  South Improvement Company, 6

  Southeastern Power & Light Co., 289

  Southern Pacific R. R., 49, 51, 52 53, 70, 81, 171

  Southern R. R., 80, 182

  Spanish War, 2, 3, 14

  Speyer & Co., 82

  Splawn, Walter M. W., 288

  Standard Gas & Electric Co., 288

  Standard Oil Company, 5–7, 13, 53, 57, 65, 66, 76, 81, 149, 163, 189, 255, 358

  Standard Oil Company of Indiana, 94, 95, 250, 261

  Standard Oil Trust, 6, 7, 163

  Stanley Committee, 127

  Steel Corporation (see United States

  Steel Corporation) Steele, Charles, 136, 345, 368

  Steffens, Lincoln, 148, 151

  Sterling, John W., 52

  Stettinius, Edward R., 203, 206

  Steunenberg, Frank, 152

  Stewart, Col. Robert W., 250, 261

  Stillman, James, 13, 52 53, 57, 81, 83, 85, 86, 99, 105–110, 122, 125, 128, 129, 131, 132, 136, 138, 142, 174–180, 189, 304, 305

  Stillman, James A., 305, 313

  Stock Exchange, Chicago, 283

  Stock Exchange, New York, 33, 34, 36, 52 56, 59, 61, 62, 65, 71, 73, 103, 131, 133, 136, 139, 140, 195, 196, 244, 348–363, 383, 385, 391, 396, 412, 417

  Stock Exchange, Pittsburgh, 131

  Stock Exchange, San Francisco, 322

  Stone, Harlan F., 386

  Straus, Jesse F., 386

  Strauss, Frederick, 368

  Strawn, Silas H., 453

  Strong, Benjamin, 129, 137, 138

  Stutz corner, 216

  Sullivan, Mark, 165

  Summerson, E. P., 288

  Supreme Court, U. S., 66, 69, 74, 77, 163, 164, 167, 227, 276, 445, 456

  Swope, Gerard, 368

  Széchényi, Count Lâszló, 105

  Taft, William H., 85, 153, 159, 161, 163, 165, 189

  Tarbell, Ida M., 76, 149

  Taussig, F. W., 369

  Taylor, Frederick W., 235

  Taylor, Myron C., 368

  Teagle, Walter C., 368

  Technocracy, 402, 420

  Temple, William C., 18

  Tennessee Coal & Iron Co., 135, 137, 139, 140, 165

  Tennessee Valley Authority, 452

  Thayer, Warren T., 291

  Thomas, Edward R., 117, 119, 121

  Thomas, R. H., 131, 132

  Thompson, William H., 272

  Thorne, Oakleigh, 126–129, 311

  Tidewater Power Co., 247, 278

 

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