59 MEN RULE UNITED STATES---GERARD
59 MEN RULE UNITED STATES - GERARD CAPITALISTS RULING CLASS OF THE COUNTRY Rockefeller, Mellon And Morgan Head List of Former Ambassador HOOVER NAME IS AMONG MISSING Bankers, Steel Men, Public...
...His selection was composed almost entirely of capitalists and financiers and included leaders in the banking world, thes teel industry, mining, the railroad business, public utilities, the amusement field and journalism...
...In the pamphlet he wrote: "Give the 40 men who role the United States 10 years for the development of this industrial empire (the British empire) and no coun- • try on earth could approach it in per capita wealth...
...P. G. Gossler, utilip' magnate: R. C. Holmes, oil p: ducer...
...Gerard to rank his selections ac- cording to his opinion of their im-portance, but he expressed the be- that as a class the bankers expert the greatest influence, because they control the purse strings of the nation...
...Henry Ford, Frederick K. Weyerhauser, lumber magnate...
...The list included John D. Rockefeller Jr...
...Edward J. Berwind...
...Cyrus H. K. Curtis, publisher...
...Albert...
...the D Pont family...
...Andrew W. Mellon and J. P. Morgan, but omitted President Hoover and others holding national or state offices...
...motion p; turc executive...
...William H. Crock banker...
...Charles E Mitchell, Samuel Insull, the Fisher brothers, Daniel Guggenheim...
...Adolph S. Ochs, publisher: William Randolph Hearst...
...financier...
...Mr, Gerard's list fellows...
...Chase Wiggin, banker...
...Walter C. Teagle, oil magnate...
...Julius Rcsenwald, merchant...
...Dan C. Jackling, copper magnate: A thur V. Davis, aluminum compa: president...
...Myron C. Taylor, steel magnate: James A. Farrell, steel magna' Charles M. Schwab, steel magna...
...John J. Rasobk...
...William Loeb...
...O. P. and M. J. van Suerinii railroad executives...
...as the "men who rule the United States...
...declared while all these men eToo buw to run for political office, tMJBinfluence, financial, in dustrialfepd semi-political, determines the men who shall go in office...
...Gerard explained the actual "power behind the throne" is wielded by men whose wealth and important industrial positions in the nation give them a prominent influence in American life, whereas statesman, diplomats and politicians owe their influence to the offices to which they hold and are usually shorn of most of their power when they retire...
...Thomss W. Lament...
...John D. Rockefeller Jr., Andrew W. Mellon, J. P. Morgan, George F. Baker, banker: John D. Ryan, mining magnate...
...Daniel Willard, railroad president: Sosthenes Behn, telephone and telegraph executive: Walter S. Gifford, telephone and telegraph magnate: Owen D. Young...
...Roy W. Howard, publisher...
...Odolph Zukr.r...
...Joseph Medill Patterson, publisher...
...59 MEN RULE UNITED STATES - GERARD CAPITALISTS RULING CLASS OF THE COUNTRY Rockefeller, Mellon And Morgan Head List of Former Ambassador HOOVER NAME IS AMONG MISSING Bankers, Steel Men, Public Utility Magnates Included in the List NEW YORK— —James W. Gerard, former ambassador to Germany, today named 59 person...
...Robert R. McCormick, editor...
...H. M. Warner, motion picture e ecutive...
...Gerard compiled the list ot these men for today's New York Times, which asked him to amplify a sentence in a pamphlet he wrote indorsing the crusade of Viscount Rothmere and Lord Beaverbrook for British Empire free trade and high protection...
...W. W. At bury, railroad president: Artii Curtis James, railroad cirecu Charles Hayden...
...Gerard Swope, electrical company official...
...Eugene G. Grace, steel magna...
...No attempt was made by Mr...
...financier...
...G. W. HilL tobacco magnate...
Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 38
