--- title: "America's 60 Families" url: 'https://samisdat.in/blog/americas-60-families' markdown: 'https://samisdat.in/blog/americas-60-families.md' lang: en date: '2019-05-23' description: "Ferdinand Lundberg America's 60 Families (1937) Some highlights and notes from the book, extensive references at the end. Download: America's 60 Families CONTENTS This was written about the USA in 1937. 6000 people top the US #usurocracy in 1937 with Rockefeller on top. \"Without minimi…" taxonomy: category: - blog tag: - money - politics - wealth - power - oligarchy - corruption - establishment - elite --- # [America's 60 Families](https://samisdat.in/blog/americas-60-families) 23rd May 2019 [money](https://samisdat.in/blog/tag:money#body-wrapper) [politics](https://samisdat.in/blog/tag:politics#body-wrapper) [wealth](https://samisdat.in/blog/tag:wealth#body-wrapper) [power](https://samisdat.in/blog/tag:power#body-wrapper) [oligarchy](https://samisdat.in/blog/tag:oligarchy#body-wrapper) [corruption](https://samisdat.in/blog/tag:corruption#body-wrapper) [establishment](https://samisdat.in/blog/tag:establishment#body-wrapper) [elite](https://samisdat.in/blog/tag:elite#body-wrapper) # Ferdinand Lundberg ## America's 60 Families (1937) Some highlights and notes from the book, extensive references at the end. - Download: [America's 60 Families](https://samisdat.in/books/americas-60-families-1937) ![Image 1 - 1_1020439280890580992.jpg](https://samisdat.in/images/d/5/7/e/4/d57e473e45fca7c689a06be3d09724e4455ddde6-11020439280890580992.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 2 - 2_1020439280890580992.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/2_1020439280890580992.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 3 - 3_1020439280890580992.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/3_1020439280890580992.jpg?g-16018011) CONTENTS ![Image 4 - 4_1067186547185917952.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/4_1067186547185917952.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 5 - 5_1067186547185917952.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/5_1067186547185917952.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 6 - 6_1067186547185917952.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/6_1067186547185917952.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 7 - 7_1067186547185917952.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/7_1067186547185917952.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 8 - 8_1067187052456935425.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/8_1067187052456935425.jpg?g-16018011) This was written about the USA in 1937. ![Image 9 - 9_1067272268286447617.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/9_1067272268286447617.jpg?g-16018011) 6000 people top the US #usurocracy in 1937 with Rockefeller on top. ![Image 10 - 10_1067276202916884480.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/10_1067276202916884480.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 11 - 11_1067276202916884480.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/11_1067276202916884480.jpg?g-16018011) "Without minimizing the significance of control by the dominant owning clique through corporate devices, it is nevertheless true that corporations are merely the instruments or tools of control behind which the living masters hide in discreet anonymity." Unchanged CORP(SE)-ORATE ![Image 12 - 12_1067279021707354112.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/12_1067279021707354112.jpg?g-16018011) The immense Rockefeller wealth compared to European Royalty and Indian Princes. Not even Czar Nicholas II or Queen Victoria could compare. (Wealth comparisons to Rothschilds and others is missing - we can only know today that it's unlikely to have been squandered!) ![Image 13 - 13_1067514256889954306.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/13_1067514256889954306.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 14 - 14_1067514256889954306.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/14_1067514256889954306.jpg?g-16018011) The power and influence of family connections. "Any tendency toward dispersal of great wealth that might be expected from its supposed distribution among numerous offspring of unions between rich and poor has been more than offset by the actual marriage of wealth with wealth." ![Image 15 - 15_1067550374561751040.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/15_1067550374561751040.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 16 - 16_1067550374561751040.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/16_1067550374561751040.jpg?g-16018011) "The rich families which the Rockefellers have interlocked in have been interlocked by marriages with other wealthy families, so that one can trace an almost unbroken line of biological relationships from the Rockefellers through half of the wealthiest 60 families of the nation." "A sound psychological reason for the marriage of wealth with wealth is simply that the rich are suspicious, when it comes to contracting marriage, of the motives of those who are not rich. They are afraid of fortune-hunters, and properly so, for there have been many cases..." "It is one of the many ironies of the situation that the United States should be pumping forth dividends and rents to support persons in stations so alien to the American concept of social status." ![Image 17 - 17_1067556234549706753.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/17_1067556234549706753.jpg?g-16018011) America's 60 Richest Families Wealth (1937) based on tax records ![Image 18 - 18_1067875919237455876.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/18_1067875919237455876.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 19 - 19_1067875919237455876.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/19_1067875919237455876.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 20 - 20_1067875919237455876.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/20_1067875919237455876.jpg?g-16018011) USA - Percentage distribution of income and % saved, 1929. ![Image 21 - 21_1067906212690345984.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/21_1067906212690345984.jpg?g-16018011) In 1929, 99% of US citizens earned $5000 or less. "So perfect, so thorough, has been the collaboration of politics and private fortune since the founding of the American colonies that it is difficult to ascertain from the data of any given period where political intrigue on behalf of specific private interest has terminated." ![Image 22 - 22_1067934057026252800.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/22_1067934057026252800.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 23 - 23_1067934057026252800.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/23_1067934057026252800.jpg?g-16018011) "Marcus Alonzo Hanna, commissar extraordinary of John D. Rocke-feller, became the political architect of the new era, whose unique characteristics have been a tremendous drive into foreign markets..." - Wikipedia: [en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark\_Hanna](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Hanna) - Biography - Internet Archive: [archive.org/details/marcusalonzohann01crol](https://archive.org/details/marcusalonzohann01crol) ![Image 24 - 24_1067948640860348417.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/24_1067948640860348417.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 25 - 25_1067948640860348417.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/25_1067948640860348417.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 26 - 26_1067948640860348417.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/26_1067948640860348417.jpg?g-16018011) "In 1860 more than half the land area of the nation was held in trust for the people by the government, but by 1900 fully nine-tenths of it had been given away under the stimulus of corrupt payments, to railroads, mining syndicates, speculative land enterprises and homesteaders." ![Image 27 - 27_1067949943099396097.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/27_1067949943099396097.jpg?g-16018011) "That the ingenious Hanna, with his Rockefeller tutelage, brought into American politics a new technique rather than a new philosophy may be seen from the size of the funds that have snared American votes since 1860." ![Image 28 - 28_1067951028249739265.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/28_1067951028249739265.jpg?g-16018011) Corrupt President Cleveland & J P Morgan government bonds-for-gold scam. This is the reason for public auction of government securities. ![Image 29 - 29_1067955633452998657.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/29_1067955633452998657.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 30 - 30_1067955633452998657.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/30_1067955633452998657.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 31 - 31_1067955633452998657.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/31_1067955633452998657.jpg?g-16018011) Reasons why the US War against Spain was made to take control of Cuba. ![Image 32 - 32_1067960369589686273.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/32_1067960369589686273.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 33 - 33_1067960369589686273.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/33_1067960369589686273.jpg?g-16018011) "The practice in the new holding-company era was for a banking group, usually led by J. P. Morgan and Company, to induce the dominant families of competing enterprises to exchange their holdings for cash or for stocks and bonds in a consolidated enterprise." ![Image 34 - 34_1067961891547435009.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/34_1067961891547435009.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 35 - 35_1067961891547435009.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/35_1067961891547435009.jpg?g-16018011) "...after the 1890s that nearly all the ambassadors to London, Paris, Tokyo, Berlin, Rome, and lesser foreign capitals are the trusted deputies of the Morgan, Rockefeller, Mellon, and other banking camps." ![Image 36 - 36_1067964260150624256.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/36_1067964260150624256.jpg?g-16018011) When has a US President not been in the pocket of bankers? "When Roosevelt's 2 terms are weighed it becomes patent that during this period, J P Morgan and Company and its clients made the greatest progress in their history. The evidence in support of this conclusion is crushing." ![Image 37 - 37_1067968166431723520.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/37_1067968166431723520.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 38 - 38_1067968166431723520.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/38_1067968166431723520.jpg?g-16018011) "Throughout his tenure Roosevelt continued to demand and re-ceive funds for the building of a huge Navy intended merely to under-write foreign economic conquests of Wall Street; in 1907 he theatrically sent the fleet around the world." - Wikipedia: [Great White Fleet](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_White_Fleet) ![Image 39 - 39_1067972359909453831.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/39_1067972359909453831.jpg?g-16018011) 1907 Fake News and White House Collusion with J P Morgan ![Image 40 - 40_1068177692107755520.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/40_1068177692107755520.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 41 - 41_1068177692107755520.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/41_1068177692107755520.jpg?g-16018011) Attorney "General Bonaparte" 😁 USA oligarchy, New World wealth intermingled with European blue-blood - [Charles Joseph Bonaparte](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Bonaparte) ![Image 42 - 42_1068185776767320064.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/42_1068185776767320064.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 43 - 43_1068185776767320064.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/43_1068185776767320064.jpg?g-16018011) - Internet Archive: [The wreck; an historical and a critical study of the administrations of Theodore Roosevelt and of William Howard Taft](https://archive.org/details/wreckhistoricala00hans/page/52) (1913) by Hansbrough, Henry Clay, 1848-1933 ![Image 44 - 44_1068191481582837761.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/44_1068191481582837761.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 45 - 45_1068191481582837761.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/45_1068191481582837761.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 46 - 46_1068191481582837761.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/46_1068191481582837761.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 47 - 47_1068191481582837761.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/47_1068191481582837761.jpg?g-16018011) Pres. Taft suppressed an important opinion of Solicitor General Frederick Lehmann, who held that securities affiliates were illegal. Lehmann's opinion was not made known until 1933, when it was discovered during the inquiry into Wall Street irregularities. - Wikipedia: [Frederick William Lehmann](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_William_Lehmann) ![Image 48 - 48_1068222764107079681.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/48_1068222764107079681.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 49 - 49_1068222764107079681.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/49_1068222764107079681.jpg?g-16018011) Such control also made possible the reaping of enormous profits by manipulation, profits in which the actual owners of property usually did not share. The consequences against which Brandeis specifically warned did not descend on the nation until 1929-33. ![Image 50 - 50_1068227536558137344.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/50_1068227536558137344.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 51 - 51_1068227536558137344.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/51_1068227536558137344.jpg?g-16018011) - NYT: [F. Lundberg, 92, Author Who Wrote of the Rich](https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/03/obituaries/f-lundberg-92-author-who-wrote-of-the-rich.html) By WOLFGANG SAXON MARCH 3, 1995 Cracks In The Constitution, By Ferdinand Lundberg - Summary of book - PDF: [Cracks In The Constitution](https://famguardian.org/Subjects/LawAndGovt/LegalEthics/CracksInTheConst.pdf) "Woodrow Wilson took office ominously, one might say, as a re-former and a liberal. Wall Street was not disturbed." - Income Tax - FTC - Federal Reserve After the passage of the Federal Reserve Act, Thomas Fortune Ryan on Wilson: "He is a great man and a great President." ![Image 52 - 52_1068311654469906432.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/52_1068311654469906432.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 53 - 53_1068311654469906432.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/53_1068311654469906432.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 54 - 54_1068311654469906432.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/54_1068311654469906432.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 55 - 55_1068311654469906432.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/55_1068311654469906432.jpg?g-16018011) > "1913 James Speyer of the banking house of Speyer and Company, called at the State Department and confided his anxiety that the Huerta regime in Mexico would default on a $10,000,000 loan maturing in June." Early implementation of John Perkins' Economic Hitman System ™️ ![Image 56 - 56_1068315235973517312.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/56_1068315235973517312.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 57 - 57_1068315235973517312.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/57_1068315235973517312.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 58 - 58_1068315235973517312.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/58_1068315235973517312.jpg?g-16018011) > "The major portion of the war profits, the fact is, went into the hands of the wealthiest families. Net corporation profits for the period Jan 1916 - Jul 1921, when war-time industrial activity was finally liquidated, were $38 bln or approx the amount of the war expenditures." ![Image 59 - 59_1068660114654154753.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/59_1068660114654154753.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 60 - 60_1068660114654154753.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/60_1068660114654154753.jpg?g-16018011) > "...we shall become a creditor instead of a debtor nation, and such a development, sooner or later, would certainly tend to bring about the dollar, instead of the pound sterling, as the international basis of exchange." -- Thomas W Lamont, JPM, April 1915 - Wikipedia: [Thomas W. Lamont](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_W._Lamont) ![Image 61 - 61_1068666583734775809.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/61_1068666583734775809.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 62 - 62_1068666583734775809.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/62_1068666583734775809.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 63 - 63_1068666583734775809.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/63_1068666583734775809.jpg?g-16018011) "Early in 1917 the Allied governments, which now owed the Ameri-can bankers and their clients nearly $1,500,000,000, had been brought virtually to their knees by the German armies, and it was believed that the limit of Allied credit had been reached." ![Image 64 - 64_1068669798882713602.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/64_1068669798882713602.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 65 - 65_1068669798882713602.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/65_1068669798882713602.jpg?g-16018011) "There was every reason, of course, for Wall Street to regard the war as beneficent. By the close of 1916 Stock Exchange prices had risen 600% over the 1914 average. For stockholders and bankers 1916 was until then the most prosperous year in American history." ![Image 66 - 66_1068677676800663552.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/66_1068677676800663552.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 67 - 67_1068677676800663552.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/67_1068677676800663552.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 68 - 68_1068677676800663552.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/68_1068677676800663552.jpg?g-16018011) WW1 - The Red Cross, a cover operation headed by a banker and prospector spying, fomenting revolution and starving people who were on the wrong side. "The purely political func-tion of the Red Cross is not generally appreciated even today." (1937)! ![Image 69 - 69_1068679782420881409.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/69_1068679782420881409.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 70 - 70_1068679782420881409.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/70_1068679782420881409.jpg?g-16018011) "Yet, in saying that newspapers do not exist to serve truth, it does not follow that they never serve truth and are never actuated by idealism, although truth in established journalism is always secondary, and very often is incidental, even accidental." ![Image 71 - 71_1069068078317744128.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/71_1069068078317744128.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 72 - 72_1069068078317744128.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/72_1069068078317744128.jpg?g-16018011) "FREEDOM of the press in the United States is largely theoretic and Pickwickian, consisting, in the main, of the tenuous right of small dissident groups to publish newspapers and magazines of limited circulation for sectarian audiences." ![Image 73 - 73_1069072751258931200.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/73_1069072751258931200.jpg?g-16018011) "The most authoritative statement of the press philosophy of the dominant capitalists was given by The Wall Street Journal, central organ of finance capital, on January 20, 1925, as follows:" ![Image 74 - 74_1069073740233940992.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/74_1069073740233940992.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 75 - 75_1069073740233940992.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/75_1069073740233940992.jpg?g-16018011) "The average newspaper reader believes that labor starts riots, throws bombs, and is the enemy of law and order. Misrepresentation of union labor is, indeed, fundamental in all newspapers, almost without exception..." ![Image 76 - 76_1069078458507190272.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/76_1069078458507190272.jpg?g-16018011) "The middle classes, notably in their role as consumers and investors, are duped by the plutocratic press. In 1929, for example, the press con-sistently refused to give due weight and display to warnings about the collapse of the stock market..." ![Image 77 - 77_1069079641363808256.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/77_1069079641363808256.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 78 - 78_1069079641363808256.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/78_1069079641363808256.jpg?g-16018011) "In reading through the newspapers of 1929-33 one is confronted with this apparent paradox: corporations in 1933 suddenly began rehiring employees that had never been laid off!" ![Image 79 - 79_1069081236591837184.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/79_1069081236591837184.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 80 - 80_1069081236591837184.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/80_1069081236591837184.jpg?g-16018011) "American newspapers, in short, are, paradoxically and with few exceptions, not newspapers at all." ![Image 81 - 81_1069083311421689862.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/81_1069083311421689862.jpg?g-16018011) "The pecuniary inhibitions that rule the press like a Freudian complex have brought such discredit upon newspapers that they are no longer trusted by informed persons or even by business interests." ![Image 82 - 82_1069084746842603520.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/82_1069084746842603520.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 83 - 83_1069084746842603520.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/83_1069084746842603520.jpg?g-16018011) "From its inception in 1924 Time has consistently performed as the journalistic champion of the wealthiest families." ![Image 84 - 84_1069088077686165506.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/84_1069088077686165506.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 85 - 85_1069088077686165506.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/85_1069088077686165506.jpg?g-16018011) "Few readers are able to see through the spurious claim of objecitivity behind which Time and Fortune class-consciously maneuver, for both employ a highly refined and deceptive journalistic technique wherein a brief adjective or adverb may slant a whole series of facts." ![Image 86 - 86_1069090546168283136.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/86_1069090546168283136.jpg?g-16018011) (a) "the stock market break \[1929\] is purely local & has no relation to general business or economics"; (b) "the situation\[1930\] should improve"; (c) "the depression \[1931\] must take its course"; ... (f) "the banking system \[1932\] is fundamentally sound." - [en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas\_W.\_Lamont](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_W._Lamont) ![Image 87 - 87_1069092294702317568.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/87_1069092294702317568.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 88 - 88_1069092294702317568.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/88_1069092294702317568.jpg?g-16018011) "Philanthropy, or Noncommercial Investment" chapter does quite a job of putting the benevolent 'Foundation', 'Charity' myth into perspective - it's mainly Public Relations - and look at 'giving' rather as 'buying' and with strings attached. ![Image 89 - 89_1069318553017491457.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/89_1069318553017491457.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 90 - 90_1069318553017491457.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/90_1069318553017491457.jpg?g-16018011) Philanthropists ![Image 91 - 91_1069320623829262336.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/91_1069320623829262336.jpg?g-16018011) Not going to tweet more from this book, unless I find anything interesting which is available online from the extensive bibliography. ## References - Internet Archive: [Frenzied Finance](https://archive.org/details/frenziedfinance01laws) (1905) by Lawson, Thomas William, 1857- ![Image 92 - 92_1069388386094456834.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/92_1069388386094456834.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 93 - 93_1069388386094456834.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/93_1069388386094456834.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 94 - 94_1069388386094456834.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/94_1069388386094456834.jpg?g-16018011) - Internet Archive: [Years of plunder; a financial chronicle of our times](https://archive.org/details/yearsofplunderfi00hansrich) (1935) by Hansl, Proctor W ![Image 95 - 95_1069390110762901504.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/95_1069390110762901504.jpg?g-16018011) - Internet Archive: [Other people's money, and how the bankers use it](https://archive.org/details/otherpeoplesmone00bran) (1924) by Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941 ![Image 96 - 96_1069390640381927425.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/96_1069390640381927425.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 97 - 97_1069390640381927425.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/97_1069390640381927425.jpg?g-16018011) - Internet Archive: [Rulers of America; A Study of Finance Capital - Anna Rochester](https://archive.org/details/RulersOfAmericaAStudyOfFinanceCapitalAnnaRochester1936) (1936) by Rochester, Anna ![Image 98 - 98_1069391450356486145.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/98_1069391450356486145.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 99 - 99_1069391450356486145.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/99_1069391450356486145.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 100 - 100_1069391450356486145.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/100_1069391450356486145.jpg?g-16018011) - Internet Archive: [The masters of capital; a chronicle of Wall street](https://archive.org/details/mastersofcapitaljohn00moodiala) (1921) by Moody, John, 1868-1958 ![Image 101 - 101_1069391893786779648.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/101_1069391893786779648.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 102 - 102_1069391893786779648.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/102_1069391893786779648.jpg?g-16018011) - Internet Archive: [The Mirrors Of 1932](https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.58087) by Anonymous ![Image 103 - 103_1069392676305416193.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/103_1069392676305416193.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 104 - 104_1069392676305416193.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/104_1069392676305416193.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 105 - 105_1069392676305416193.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/105_1069392676305416193.jpg?g-16018011) - Internet Archive: [The story of life insurance](https://archive.org/details/storylifeinsura03hendgoog) (1932) by Hendrick, Burton Jesse, 1870-1949 ![Image 106 - 106_1069393490004635648.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/106_1069393490004635648.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 107 - 107_1069393490004635648.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/107_1069393490004635648.jpg?g-16018011) - Internet Archive: [Capitalism and Its Culture](https://archive.org/details/B-001-016-984) (1935) by Jerome Davis - Internet Archive: [Forty years of American finance](https://archive.org/details/fortyyearsameri01noyegoog) (1909) by Noyes, Alexander Dana, 1862-1945 ![Image 108 - 108_1069396963110633472.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/108_1069396963110633472.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 109 - 109_1069396963110633472.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/109_1069396963110633472.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 110 - 110_1069396963110633472.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/110_1069396963110633472.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 111 - 111_1069396963110633472.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/111_1069396963110633472.jpg?g-16018011) - Internet Archive: [History of the great American fortunes](https://archive.org/details/historyofgreatam01myer) (1908) by Myers, Gustavus, 1872-1942 ![Image 112 - 112_1069397552414502912.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/112_1069397552414502912.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 113 - 113_1069397552414502912.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/113_1069397552414502912.jpg?g-16018011) - Internet Archive: [The theory of business enterprise](https://archive.org/details/theorybusinesse04veblgoog) (1904) by Veblen, Thorstein, 1857-1929 ![Image 114 - 114_1069398803265085440.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/114_1069398803265085440.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 115 - 115_1069398803265085440.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/115_1069398803265085440.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 116 - 116_1069398803265085440.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/116_1069398803265085440.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 117 - 117_1069398803265085440.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/117_1069398803265085440.jpg?g-16018011) - Internet Archive: [Washington Merry Go Round](https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77378) (1931) by Horace Livbright ![Image 118 - 118_1069399415583068160.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/118_1069399415583068160.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 119 - 119_1069399415583068160.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/119_1069399415583068160.jpg?g-16018011) - Internet Archive: [Democracy at the cross-roads](https://archive.org/details/democracyatcross00petruoft) (1919) by Petre, Maude Dominica Mary, 1863-1942 ![Image 120 - 120_1069399894606139392.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/120_1069399894606139392.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 121 - 121_1069399894606139392.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/Americas%2060%20Families/121_1069399894606139392.jpg?g-16018011) --- ## Navigation - Parent: [Blog](https://samisdat.in/blog.md) - Previous: [The American Jew](https://samisdat.in/blog/the-american-jew.md) - Next: [Android without Google System Apps](https://samisdat.in/blog/android-no-google-apps.md)