Shane Parrish
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20,679 appearances
49 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 15 Sep
Shane Parrish’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He used to talk to me about the criticisms Junior remembered, and I think it eased his mind to do so.
But he always ended up by saying, well, John, we have to be patient.
We have been successful and these people haven't.
Tarbell set out to make him answer for all of it, but he never answered her.
His focus always remained on staying out of the spotlight and concentrating only on what he could control.
In July 1905, with Tarbell's final installment on the stands, he wrote to Archibald, the man running Standard Oil now.
I never appreciated more than at present the importance of our taking care of our business, holding it and increasing it in every part of the world.
The armor cracked once.
In his late 70s, Rockefeller sat for a run of interviews with a writer named William Hoster.
Hoster had been a newspaper man and one day worked up the nerve to ask whether Mr. Rockefeller had ever considered that he might be partly responsible for how the papers treated him.
Rockefeller was dumbfounded at such a suggestion, and then Hoster admitted that he himself had once written absurd stories about Rockefeller's failing health.
He explained that he had done so because when his editor sent him to check the facts, nobody would let him within 100 feet of the man.
The secrecy itself had become the story, because reporters like him had nothing else to go on.
Rockefeller stood in silence a full minute before murmuring, so it's all my fault.
Then after a long pause, he went on, I suppose there may be something in what you say, though I had never thought of it that way before.
The public verdict was one reckoning, the law was another, and it had been grinding towards Standard Oil for decades.
Congress had moved first.
In 1890, the Sherman Antitrust Act became law, written in large part in response to what Standard Oil had built.
But then for a decade, almost nothing happened.
The law was vague and barely enforced.
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