Rockefeller and Packard Halls had been renovated ; ;

In 1961, Governor Nelson Rockefeller signed the bill that formally created the City University of New York to integrate these institutions, and a new graduate school, together into a coordinate system of higher education for the city, and by 1979, the Board of Higher Education had become the Board of Trustees of the CUNY.

As late as early 1968, Agnew was a strong supporter of Nelson Rockefeller, one of Nixon's opponents, but by June had switched to supporting Nixon.

In the summer of 1975, congressional Church Committee reports and the presidential Rockefeller Commission report revealed to the public for the first time that the CIA and the Department of Defense had conducted experiments on both unwitting and cognizant human subjects as part of an extensive program to influence and control human behavior through the use of psychoactive drugs such as LSD and mescaline and other chemical, biological, and psychological means.

Much of what the Church Committee and the Rockefeller Commission learned about MKUltra was contained in a report, prepared by the Inspector General's office in 1963, that had survived the destruction of records ordered in 1973.

By 1942 Rockefeller had become increasingly impatient that his purchased property might never be added to the park, and wrote to the Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes that he was considering selling the land to another party.

He had received emeritus status from the Rockefeller Institute in 1943, but continued working for five years, proving that not all breakthrough discoveries are achieved by younger people ( by this time he was in his late sixties ).

In 1906, Phoebus A. Levene at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research identified phosphate in the protein vitellin ( phosvitin ), and by 1933 had detected phosphoserine in casein, with Fritz Lipmann.

In 1937, MoMA had shifted to offices and basement galleries in the Time-Life Building in Rockefeller Center.

The agricultural development that began in Mexico by Norman Borlaug in 1943 ( based on Nazareno Strampelli's studies ) had been judged as a success and the Rockefeller Foundation sought to spread it to other nations.

The tour, facilitated by Nelson Rockefeller, who had recently been appointed as Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs ( CIAA ), took Disney and a group of roughly twenty composers, artists, technicians, etc.

The satirists sang that Goldwater could not win because he " does not know the dance of the liberal Republicans ", then a substantial component of the GOP, many of whose members had supported Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York for the Republican nomination.

She once told a reporter that she had thrown up in every toilet in Rockefeller Center.

One of the more well known trusts was the Standard Oil Company ; John D. Rockefeller in the 1870s and 1880s had used economic threats against competitors and secret rebate deals with railroads to build what was called a monopoly in the oil business, though some minor competitors remained in business.

Ford became as much of a popular hero as Rockefeller had been a villain.

Hillery who operated it for a few years and then sold it in 1911 to a company that had been organized by Ferdinand Nordman, Jr. Nordman constructed a " jelly house " and enlarged the fruit business, selling fruit preserves via mail order to customers across the country, including New York Governor, Nelson Rockefeller.

The Rockefeller family had an estate which has been turned into Ocean County Park.

* John D. Rockefeller ( 1839 – 1937 ), industrialist and philanthropist, had an estate in Lakewood, as well as other homes in Ohio, New York, and Florida.

There had been quarries within what is today Forest Hill Park previous to Rockefeller donating it to the city.

Bacteriologist Fred Neufeld, of the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, Germany, had earlier identified the pneumococcal types, confirmed and expanded by Alphonse Dochez at Oswald Avery's laboratory in America at The Rockefeller Hospital.

In 2000, the current owner Jerry Speyer ( a close friend of David Rockefeller ), of Tishman Speyer Properties, L. P., together with the Lester Crown family of Chicago, bought for $ 1. 85 billion the older 14 buildings and land from the previous syndicated owners: Goldman Sachs ( which had 50 percent ownership ), Gianni Agnelli, Stavros Niarchos, and David Rockefeller, who organized the syndicate in 1996 and is historically associated with the other partners.

RCA had developed numerous studios for NBC at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, just to the south of the Music Hall, and the radio-TV complex that lent the Music Hall its name is still known as the NBC Radio City Studios.

In February 1941, Lomax spoke and gave a demonstration of his program along with talks by Nelson A. Rockefeller from the Pan American Union, and the president of the American Museum of Natural History, at a global conference in Mexico of a thousand broadcasters CBS had sponsore to launch its worldwide programming initiative.

Bush publicly denounced Rockefeller for divorcing his first wife and marrying a woman about 20 years his junior with whom Rockefeller had been having an affair while married to his first wife.

In particular, Governor Nelson Rockefeller has expressed as cogently and clearly as anyone the case for a resumption of atmospheric tests.

Though academic jobs were scarce in 1930, he had won a Rockefeller Fellowship which enabled him to study the Canadian party and electoral systems in general and Saskatchewan's in particular.

At the end, the limo would approach 30 Rockefeller Plaza, and that particular weeks ' guest stars would then emerge from the backseat.

He poured Rockefeller resources into the social sciences in general and the SSRC in particular.

The system was greatly expanded during the administration of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, who took a personal interest in design and construction of new SUNY facilities across the state.

The system was greatly expanded during the administration of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, who took a personal interest in the design and construction of new SUNY facilities across the state.

Jenners, Ralphton, Acosta and Gray were each built shortly after 1900 as company towns by Consolidation Coal, a Rockefeller interest, for its newly opened deep coal mines.

CF & I was purchased by John D. Rockefeller in 1902, and nine years later he turned his controlling interest in the company to his son, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who managed the company from his offices at 26 Broadway in New York.

As the state's First Lady, Jeanette Rockefeller took a special interest in mental health issues.

The evidence simply is unanswerable that Mr. Rockefeller is working for his own personal interest to the exclusion of all other considerations, which leaves the Republican Party in Arkansas hanging precariously at the whims of one individual ...

A majority said that the wealthy Rockefeller, despite his interest in “ good government ,” could not understand the problems of common people on restricted incomes or those in the middle class with limited investment opportunities.

After working for several years to interest potential individuals or organizations to assist with funding, Goodwin drew the interest ( and major financial commitment ) of John D. Rockefeller Jr., the wealthy son of the founder of Standard Oil.

Encouraged by Paley's avid interest in modern art and his outstanding collection, Paley became a trustee of the Rockefeller family's Museum of Modern Art in the 1930s and, in 1962, was tapped by then-chairman David Rockefeller to be its president.

Rockefeller eventually settled on philanthropy as his major interest ( while Nelson and Winthrop devoted themselves to politics, Laurence to conservation and David to banking ).

In addition to his interest in philanthropy, Rockefeller made major commitments to supporting organizations related to East Asian affairs, including the Institute of Pacific Relations, the Asia Society, and the Japan Society.

He also had an interest, gained via his mother Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, in Buddhism and Asian cultural affairs.

Strauss became a financial adviser to the Rockefeller brothers, but continued to take an interest in atomic affairs.

In 1979, its occupant, Nelson Rockefeller, upon his death, bequeathed his one-third interest in the estate to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

In 1946, to fund expansion, Piasecki sold 51 % interest in the company to Laurance Rockefeller and Felix du Pont, Jr. for $ 500, 000.

He is an authority on the cell biological mechanisms and function of dendritic cells, the cell type responsible for initiating the immune response, an interest that dates back to his postdoctoral period at Rockefeller University in the lab of Ralph Steinman, who won the Nobel Prize in 2011 for his discovery of dendritic cells.

She was also a benefactor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the YWCA, New York Hospital, the Museum of Modern Art ( of which her mother was a founder, and in whose affairs her brothers Nelson and David played a major role ); the New York Zoological Society ( which was a major interest of her brother Laurance ); and the Asia Society, which was established by another brother, John D. Rockefeller III.