In those interwar years, Prescott Bush made the family fortune which George Bush inherited. Hepiled up the money from an international project which continued until a new world war, and the (^)
action of the U.S. government, intervened to stop him.
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- Washington Post, Aug. 16, 1991, p. A1.
- Gen. Hugh S. Johnson to Major J.H.K. Davis, June 6, 1918, file no. 334.8/168 or 334.8/451 in
U.S. National Archives, Suitland, Maryland. - Bernard M. Baruch, My Own Story (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1957), pp. 138-39. Baruch
related that "our firm did a large business for Mr. Harriman.... In 1906 Harriman had [us] place
heavy bets on Charles Evans Hughes in his race for Governor of New York against William
Randolph Hearst. After several hundred thousand dollars had been wagered, [our firm] stopped.
Hearing of this, Harriman called ... up.Didn't I tell you to bet?' he demanded.Now go on.'|" - Alden Hatch, Remington Arms: An American History, 1956, copyright by the Remington Arms
Co., pp. 224-25. - The Ohio State Journal, Columbus, Ohio, Thursday, Aug. 8, 1918.
- The Ohio State Journal, Friday, Aug. 9, 1918.
- The Ohio State Journal, Friday, Sept. 6, 1918.
- Interview with Prescott Bush in the Oral History Research Project conducted by Columbia
University in 1966, Eisenhower Administration Part II; pp. 5-6. The interview was supposed to be
kept confidential and was never published, but Columbia later sold microfilms of the transcript to
certain libraries, including Arizona State University. - Theodore Roosevelt to James S. Sherman, Oct. 6, 1906, made public by Roosevelt at a press
conference April 2, 1907. Quoted in Henry F. Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt (New York: Harcourt,
Brace and Company, 1931), p. 452. Roosevelt later confided to Harriman lawyer Robert S. Lovett
that his views on Harriman were based on what J.P. Morgan had told him. - See The Industries of St. Louis, published 1885 by J.M. Elstner & Co., pp. 61-62 for Crow,
Hagardine & Co., David Walker's first business; and p. 86 for Ely & Walker. - See Letter of G.H. Walker to D.R. Francis, March 20, 1905, in the Francis collection of the
Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Missouri, on the organization of the Republicans andDemocrats to run the election of the mayor, a Democrat acceptable to the socially prominent. The (^)
next day Walker became the treasurer and Francis the president of this "Committee of 1000." See
also George H. Walker obituary, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, June 25, 1953.
12. Letter of Perry Francis to his father, Ambassador David R. Francis, Oct. 15, 1917, Fcollection of the Missouri Historical Society. "... Joe Miller left for San Francisco last Tuesdayrancis (^)
night, where he will receive orders to continue to Petrograd. I was told by Mildred Kotany
[Walker's sister-in-law] that Bert Walker got him his appointment through Breck Long. I didn't
know Joe was after it, or could have helped him myself. He will be good company for you when he
gets there...."