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John D. Rockefeller   /dʒɑn di rˈɑkəfˌɛlər/   Listen
John D. Rockefeller

noun
1.
United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937).  Synonyms: John Davison Rockefeller, Rockefeller.






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"John d. rockefeller" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Grace of God, goes ——'' Because the phrase might as well be used in contemplation of John D. Rockefeller or Augustus John or Charlie Chaplin or a man with a wooden leg. I do not ask that you should pity these women with whom I have to deal, still less that you should contemn them. Something between the two will serve. I write the book because I am interested in crime myself, and in the hope that you'll ...
— She Stands Accused • Victor MacClure

... that when he got ashore here in Altruria, and saw how white people lived, people that used each other white, he made up his mind that he would never go hack to any ship alive. He hated a ship so much that if he could go home to America as a first-class passenger on a Cunard liner, John D. Rockefeller would not have money enough to hire him to do it. He was going to stay in Altruria till he died, if they would let him, and he guessed they would, if what he had heard about them was true. He just wanted, ...
— Through the Eye of the Needle - A Romance • W. D. Howells

... success in consolidating economic power now raises the question as to whether democracy under such conditions can survive. For the old military type of Western leaders like George Rogers Clark, Andrew Jackson, and William Henry Harrison have been substituted such industrial leaders as James J. Hill, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie. ...
— The Frontier in American History • Frederick Jackson Turner

... the most notable of these gifts were those by Mr. Carnegie for the establishment of the Carnegie Institution and the Carnegie Foundation, and the contribution to the General Education Board by John D. Rockefeller. In 1902 the Carnegie Institution at Washington was established by a gift of $10,000,000 by Andrew Carnegie. This sum he afterward increased to $25,000,000. The work of the institution is to carry on scientific study and research. Material is being collected for the ...
— History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6) • E. Benjamin Andrews

... seasoned cit. "D'you know what Mertoun would do to you? Set you back a hundred simoleons soon as look at you. And at that you got to have a letter of introduction like gettin' in to see the President of the United States or John D. Rockefeller. Come off, my boy! Bernholz's 'll fix you just as good, all but the label. ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams



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