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Originally Posted by loquitur
PTB? What's PTB?
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loquitur, you think we are where we are...when it comes to how political and wealth driven power (and political power is included in wealth driven power...) as a result of some sort of happy "accident". I'll give you a small taste of info on some of the "front men" for the PTB, in the 20th century. You have to be curious, or this "taste" won't have any influence on you to look further, to do your own DD....
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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...846962,00.html
Monday, Aug. 03, 1931
Deals & Developments
No More Bananas. Directors of the $25,000,000-in-assets Atlantic Fruit & Sugar Co. are: Samuel F. Pryor of Remington Arms Co.; lanky Vincent Astar; Frederick Baldwin Adams, chairman of Air Reduction Co. and member of the executive committee of U. S. Industrial Alcohol; Percy Avery Rockefeller; Socialite Robert Walton Goelet of Newport; Henry Osborne Havemeyer, also a director of Chase, Kennecott, and International Match; George Herbert Walker, director of American International Corp. and Barnsdall Corp.; Francis Minot Weld, also on the board of Baldwin Locomotive and Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co.; Guy Gary, a director of National City Bank.
Formed in 1924 after old Atlantic Fruit Co. had been foreclosed, the company lost money in every succeeding year. Last week it suddenly announced it had disposed of its $6,000,000-a-year fruit business (bananas in Jamaica and Cuba) to Standard Fruit & Steamship Corp., controlled by the Vaccaro interests of New Orleans. With the sugar industry in bad shape, with its current liabilities greater than current assets as last reported, Atlantic Fruit & Sugar seemed on the verge of another reorganization despite its imposing directorate.
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See "Armaments and the Walker-Bush Clan, 1914-1940"
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/54/54_12-13.pdf
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http://www.townofjupiterisland.com/history.php
...The price for the property was set at $25,000. A group of lawyers from Biddle’s office bought the assets and property and sent Forrest Hyde to Jupiter Island to see what their $25,000 had bought.
What Hyde saw was a rundown resort, the Island Inn, badly in need of expensive repairs, with a delinquent tax bill of $40,000. Hyde wanted no part of the investment. Through John Simpson, The Island Inn manager, Hyde was put in touch with William S. Barstow.
Barstow , a retired utilities executive and former partner of Thomas Edison, had lived on the Island for several years. When approached by Hyde, Barstow contacted three other Island residents: Arthur S. Dwight; Joseph V. Reed; and Joseph Reed’s brother-in-law, Samuel F. Pryor. The group formed a new Hobe Sound Company and bought the property at the $25,000 price Hyde’s group had paid, and, in addition, gave the Hyde group 20% of the common stock in the new Hobe Sound Company.
The purchase made by Barstow, Reed and Pryor included the Inn, the golf course, employee houses, and unsold land north of the fork at South Beach Road and Gomez Avenue. It also included other real estate on the mainland.
In 1934, Joseph V. Reed purchased the other owners’ shares in the Hobe Sound Company and began a new period of Island development. The entire property remained under Reed family ownership until 1996.
In 1944, with 75 residents on the Island , Joseph V. Reed and Permelia P. Reed founded the Jupiter Island Resident’s Committee and the Island Club and its Board of Directors. In the next year, 1945, Joseph Reed donated the land for the police station and the firehouse. Proximity to the wooden cottages and main Clubhouse was of paramount importance. The Reeds also gave the land that is now the Hobe Sound Beach to Martin County for use as a public beach....
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/09/national/09storm.html
....President Bush took a helicopter tour Wednesday over damaged areas, including Fort Pierce, about 25 miles north of Jupiter Island where much of the damage from the strong winds north of the hurricane's eye occurred. He also helped put bottled water, bags of ice and food in the backs of waiting cars in Fort Pierce, and signed legislation giving Florida $2 billion in emergency relief aid.
At the north and south entrances to Jupiter Island, a community in which the president's grandfather, Prescott Bush, played a central role in the 1930's, and where his grandmother lived for years, National Guardsmen monitored the flow of electrical and other repair people in and out of the island, which even at ordinary times is one of the best-guarded communities in the nation......
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