She was meticulous in detailing Rockefeller's early interest in oil and how the industry began.

Pratt sold his interest to John D. Rockefeller's recently formed Standard Oil Trust in 1874.

Rockefeller's major interest was in aviation ; after the War, he became friendly with Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who had triumphed in many dogfights over Europe.

When Abby Rockefeller's son Nelson was selected by the board of trustees to become its flamboyant president in 1939, at the age of thirty, he became the prime instigator and funder of its publicity, acquisitions and subsequent expansion into new headquarters on 53rd Street.

After graduating, she worked on Nelson Rockefeller's presidential campaign.

Malcolm Wilson, Rockefeller's successor, put the project on hold ; and his successor, Hugh Carey, killed it for good in 1976.

Brooke, who had supported Michigan Governor George W. Romney and then New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller's bids for the 1968 GOP presidential nomination against Nixon's, often differed with President Richard Nixon on matters of social policy and civil rights.

Faithful Republican leaders who have worked tirelessly over the years have been pushed aside or replaced ... A stranger passing through Arkansas at this time and seeing Mr. Rockefeller's advertising on billboards would not know whether Mr. Rockefeller belonged to any political party.

Urwin determined that Rockefeller's negatives created public perceptions of “ his personal flaws, rather than his accomplishments or lack of them, as governor .” Considered a weak administrator, he depended too heavily on staff, so improperly managed that the employees often failed to answer mail.

Ida Tarbell's series in 1902 exposing the monopoly abuses of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company and Ray Stannard Baker's earlier look at the United States Steel Corporation focused the public eye on the conduct of corporations.

To prepare for the role, he read everything on the case, including coverage of the case and Rockefeller's jailhouse interview.

He was re-elected in 1968 but did not seek a third term in 1970, having deferred to his friend and Little Rock neighbor, Sterling R. Cockrill, a Democrat-turned-Republican, who ran unsuccessfully on Winthrop Rockefeller's losing GOP ticket that year.

* Development: Rockefeller Kin to Save Land 2003 NYT article on David Rockefeller's plans for the organic Stone Barns complex and a niece's intervention regarding a housing development on the estate.

During the Senate's confirmation hearings, LaRouche appeared on behalf of the USLP as a witness against Rockefeller's nomination.

John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company on the East Bank was putting Cleveland on the map as an industrial power, even as the refineries were leaking oil into the Cuyahoga River.

He became so well known that he testified in front of the U. S. House of Representative's Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation over Governor Rockefeller's idea for a Hudson River expressway, describing his efforts not as radical, but as American in disposition.

Though she did not endorse Harriman's opponent, Nelson Rockefeller, the sudden disendorsement of Harriman — it came in the final edition of the Post on the day before the election — swung the vote in Rockefeller's favor, and helped to launch his political career.

Interestingly, Rockefeller's brother William sat on the board of the New Haven.

The clinic received a large amount funding from John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his family, which continued to make donations to Sanger's causes in future decades, but generally made them anonymously to avoid public exposure of the family name, and to protect family member Nelson Rockefeller's political career since openly advocating birth control could have led to the Catholic Church opposing him politically.

Although the outing was of a political nature, Rockefeller's future wife Abby Greene Aldrich was included in the large party ; the two had been courting for over four years.

Ray Stannard Baker, George Creel and Brand Whitlock were active at the state and local level, while Lincoln Steffens exposed political corruption in many large cities ; Ida Tarbell went after Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company.

In 1906 Lever, together with Joseph Watson of Leeds and several other large soap manufacturers, established a monopoly soap trust, in imitation of similar combinations established in the USA following John D. Rockefeller's organisation of the Standard Oil Co. as a trust in 1882.

Rockefeller's would thus not be the first foundation in America ( Benjamin Franklin was the first to introduce the concept ), but it brought to it unprecedented international scale and scope.

First, they purchased Anaconda Properties from Marcus Daly for $ 39 million, with the understanding that the check was to be deposited in the bank and remain there for a definite time ( National City Bank was run by Rockefeller's friends ).

Venrock was founded in 1969 by Laurance S. Rockefeller, the fourth of John D. Rockefeller's six children as a way to allow other Rockefeller children to develop exposure to venture capital investments.

John D. Rockefeller's birthplace is located northeast of Lisle by a few miles, and his relatives lived in Lisle.

Coast Oil was acquired in 1900 by the Standard Oil Co. ( Iowa ), a subsidiary of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil company.

* The Architect of Colonial Williamsburg: William Graves Perry, by Will Molineux An article from the Colonial Williamsburg Journal, 2004, outlining Rockefeller's involvement

* October 13 and November 14, 1914-Galleanists-radical followers of Luigi Galleani-explode two bombs in New York City after police forcibly disperse a protest by anarchists and communists at John D. Rockefeller's home in Tarrytown.

Rockefeller's father worked to restore the family's public reputation by championing industrial relations and the work of William Lyon Mackenzie King, a pioneer in the field.

Other collections of tiles by Mercer can be found at Rockefeller's New York estate, Grauman's Chinese Theater, the casino at Monte Carlo, and the St. Louis Public Library.

The oil needed by the Tin Woodman had a political dimension at the time because Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company stood accused of being a monopoly ( and in fact was later found guilty by the Supreme Court ).

The original station building, which also served as the terminus of John D. Rockefeller's private telegraph wire to his home in Pocantico Hills, was destroyed in a fire caused by a cigarette in April 1922.

U. S. Steel ( the world's first billion dollar corporation ), Heinz, General Motors, Koppers and ExxonMobil ( as Rockefeller's Standard Oil ) were born and nurtured by Mellon.

One of America's most famous private residences, the stone mansion was constructed by the architects Chester Holmes Aldrich and William Adams Delano ( Aldrich was a distant relative of the younger Rockefeller's wife, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, who was involved as artistic consultant and in the interior design of the mansion ).

* The Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture-Outside the Park, this was opened by David Rockefeller and Peggy Dulany in 2004 and was established in memory of Rockefeller's wife, Peggy.

The Florida East Coast Railway ( FEC ) was developed by Henry Morrison Flagler, an American tycoon, real estate promoter, railroad developer and John D. Rockefeller's partner in Standard Oil.

In 1974 he came into public prominence when he appeared before the United States Congress during the confirmation hearings for Nelson Rockefeller's nomination by Gerald Ford for the vice-presidency ; during his presentation to Congressmen he outlined the overall wealth of Nelson's family.

In November 1970, despite Rockefeller's support and that of the Republican and Liberal parties, Goodell split the liberal vote with Ottinger, and was defeated by Conservative Party candidate Buckley.

It was created by major railroad interests, but was widely seen as part of John D. Rockefeller's early efforts to organize and control the oil and natural gas industries in the United States which eventually became Standard Oil.

In the early 1870s, Pratt and Rogers became involved in a conflict with the infamous South Improvement Company, which was basically a scheme to obtain favorable net shipping rates of oil owned by John D. Rockefeller's interests from the Pennsylvania Railroad ( PRR ) and other railroads through a secret system of rebates.

Ford had been in favor of selecting Rockefeller, but was persuaded by aides Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney that Rockefeller's presence could give Ronald Reagan an edge in getting the Republican nomination.

*" Doxy ," a code name for Standard Oil used by John D. Rockefeller's personnel to communicate about shady dealings