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Copyright May 2005 Charles Savoie
“The mysterious, super-elite Pilgrim Society.”
“The most
illustrious world-wide personalities.”
“The most
distinguished international organization in the world.”
“The Pilgrims
Society remained hidden until relatively recent years, to
identify the apex of power.”
(referenced towards end of document)
Plundering
International Looter$ Gaining Riche$, Injuring Megamillion$ $ecretly
= PILGRIMS! If this is your first read on this organization,
I suggest you obtain the introductory background first by reading
the December 2004 item in the Archives. (For the rest of you, take
note---silver and silver mining will be mentioned around 50 times).
If you have followed the series to date, I have other disturbing
case material with which to inform you. There is a boatload of
fascinating material I hope to acquaint you with. And you should be
fiercely interested in this Society---the rich families behind
central banking---because they are interested in you, to your great
detriment! And they do not wish their identities known; else they’d
release a membership list. A movie quote (“They Live” 1988)---
“We could be
pets, we could be food, but all we really are is livestock!”
The Pilgrims
could protest, if they chose to, that I class them as a secret
society. Actually they don’t meet the criteria for that definition
by every measure that exists. No elitist organization appears to
meet that standard, but these things are a matter of relative
basis. When not one person in 10,000 has ever heard of an
organization that dominates their destiny, it’s secret. The
Pilgrims do fulfill the definition of secret society by the most
important test which is, as I say, they refuse to release a roster.
Some will say, why should a private organization have to release a
membership list? Do we demand the local Rotary Club or Lions Club
to release members’ names? The difference is one of degree. Since
we’ve already seen that the President, Secretary of State, and
Ambassador to Great Britain are always “honorary” members; and that
this fact fails to appear in any known textbook on government or
political science---this is sufficient to need to know who all the
members are. These are far from ordinary people. They are those
who can and do powerfully influence events at the highest levels.
Exactly with
which globalist financiers, warmongers and international cartelists
do our highest officials run with? Additionally, I have noted that
over the decades, numerous Ambassadors to many different nations
have been members; also Generals; Admirals; Senators; Congressmen;
Treasury Secretaries; Federal Reserve officials and so forth. Since
these men are in control (presently) of our national destiny, it is
urgently necessary to know who they all are. As a few examples, if
a list were accessed, names likely to be encountered would include
representatives of the traditional big rich---Rockefeller; Mellon;
Du Pont; Whitney; Vanderbilt; Harriman; Pyne; Pitcairn; Pew; Phipps;
Pratt; Harkness; Aldrich; Weyerhaeuser; Duke; Reynolds; Cullman;
Dorrance; Schiff; Folger; Field; Fisher; Flagler; Roosevelt;
Guggenheim; Gould; McCormick; Berwind; Lehman; Stillman; Baker;
Livingston; and others. Top executives and directors of Citigroup;
JPMorganChase; BankAmerica; Bank of New York; Wells Fargo; Mellon
Bank; American Express; Merrill Lynch; Depository Trust & Clearing
Corporation (oversees electronic exchange of shares); Goldman Sachs;
Morgan Stanley; Lehman Brothers; Prudential Financial; Aetna; New
York Life; IBM; Exxon Mobil; Chevron Texaco; Conoco Phillips;
Schlumberger; Halliburton; Duke Energy; El Paso Corporation; Bechtel
Corporation; Alcoa; Newmont Mining; Phelps-Dodge; Microsoft; General
Electric; General Motors; Ford; Goodyear; Du Pont; Dow Chemical;
Eastman Kodak; Union Pacific; Wal-Mart; Coca-Cola; Philip Morris;
Procter & Gamble; Unilever Bestfoods; Berkshire Hathaway; Washington
Post; New York Times; Tribune Company; Time Warner; Verizon
Communications; Johnson & Johnson; Pfizer; Eli Lilly; Warner
Lambert; Merck & Company; Bristol Myers Squibb; Astra Zeneca;
Schering Plough; Glaxo Smith Kline; Pharmacia & Upjohn; United
Technologies; Raytheon; Lockheed Martin; Boise Cascade;
International Paper; Federal Reserve; Treasury Department; World
Bank and very many others would be found represented in The
Pilgrims.
We already know
where they are taking us---towards world government in a reunion
with Great Britain, using the United Nations as a facade. The
world’s most powerful organization is Anglo-American---or
British-American, with key European participation via
intermarriages. According to “Skolnick’s Report” at
www.skolnicksreport.com/greenbribe.html the Bush family is
heavily involved in global narcotics trafficking in connection with
the British Crown and its “older and wiser” status, and mentions
Pilgrim Investments as the Bush conduit and even mentions The
Pilgrim Society but doesn’t go into much detail. At least word is
getting around. Our mission should be to pull their collective
pants down, expose them and their revolting plans, and put them out
of business. Speaking of Mr. Bush, fellow Pilgrim Society member
William Stamps Farish III quoted him as saying, “America has no
truer friend than Great Britain” (apparently he didn’t watch Mel
Gibson’s film “The Patriot”) see
www.usembassy.org.uk/ukamb/farish8.html for the content. In
this view he would not have been supported by President Jackson!
Farish gave Bush’s campaign $107,000 for which favor he was
appointed Ambassador to Great Britain. It seems Farish wanted the
post badly because he already hosted Queen Elizabeth II four times
in Lexington, Kentucky, allegedly in connection with the sport of
thoroughbred horse racing (Farish was chairman of Churchill Downs
and owns many racehorses and farms). Maybe she wanted an update on
what the Crown’s Pilgrim Society network was doing to impoverish the
middle class here en route to the return to medieval feudalism.
Farish and the Bush family participated together in the Zapata
Offshore Drilling Company. His grandfather founded Humble Oil &
Refining Company in 1917, which became the largest subsidiary of
what became Exxon, and was a founder of the American Petroleum
Institute in 1926. He is a member of the Council of American
Ambassadors, another focal point for the Society’s control over our
foreign relations (5 members identified so far as directors) Farish
III, probably a billionaire--
To return to
the U.N.---it wasn’t only the United States and its elitists who
created the U.N.; the British and some Europeans also played a
role. It was located in the United States probably because if our
sovereignty can be weakened, the other nations will follow. In May
1979 I attended a speech at Texas Christian University in Fort
Worth, given by Sir Ivor Seward Richard (born 1932), then British
Ambassador to the United Nations and head of the Security Council.
Currently, the main elitist at TCU as a trustee appears to be
Winthrop Rockefeller Jr., (Pilgrims?) whose father as Arkansas
Governor pardoned all the killers on the state’s death row.
President George Bush the First made Junior chairman of the
President’s Council on Rural America. Who the deep plant at TCU was
in 1979 was probably a lesser figure. The university official who
introduced Sir Ivor was ecstatic and fawned simperingly over that
British Tory Redcoat until I thought he’d ask the audience to
genuflect to him. The official pointed out about Sir Ivor being a
member of the English Speaking Union and the Fabian Society of Great
Britain (a politically radical front). He chaired the Rhodesia
Conference in 1976. I waited for the announcer to state about Sir
Ivor being a member of The Pilgrim Society. That announcement never
came. Next I waited for the Britisher to mention his membership in
The Pilgrims and to tell the audience anything about the Society.
He made no such utterance. Below, note the emblem of the Fabian
Society of Great Britain, that of a wolf in sheep’s clothing, in a
combative posture---
I came equipped
with a tape recorder and sat on the front row. Try as I might, I
could not get selected to ask a question of the distinguished man.
Probably because I had a large tape recorder, and also because I was
wearing a T-shirt featuring a blown-up Pilgrim Society emblem (see
first essay in this series); although its details might not have
been discernable past 15 feet. After the question session was
adjourned, we were informed that a basement reception was to take
place. Sir Ivor saw me working my way towards him several times,
and the first time he noticed my shirt with the emblem, he went all
white. All this time I had the recorder running. Finally in
frustration I maneuvered myself in front of him in such a way that
he would have had to run straight into me to pass by. As we were
inches apart I asked him “How do you like my shirt?” I am not a
person who claims mind reading ability. But often you gather the
mood of the other individual by the facial expression---he was
frantic. I was not supposed to have that emblem, or to know he
was a member! HOW did this person know of the Society, and his
membership in it, he must have wondered! He took advantage of a gap
in the crowd and swiftly rotated away from me, where he was mobbed
by autograph requests. I wouldn’t have cared about that. I would
have asked for a 1979 list for both branches, updating the then
10-year-old lists I had the rare luck to come by. He would have
given me current lists, like he would have given me his eyeballs.
Quite dignified as far as everyone else present understood, I
recognized him as the cellblock looking creep he was.
During his
speech he mentioned to us about his maternal grandfather William H.
Seward, who as Secretary of States of these United States, made the
Alaska Purchase from Russia for $7 million, consummated on March 30,
1867. “We’re mostly family in The Pilgrim Society!” William Seward
(below)--
His son William
Henry (born 1839) was a Colonel in the Union Army and was listed as
head of “banking firm of William H. Seward & Co.” starting in 1860
(Who Was Who, 1897-1942, page 1106), which page also showed the
Sewards married into the Frelinghuysen family (old Dutch colonial
land fortune, later holding sugar interests and Congressional
representation.) Was he out fighting, or sitting behind the lines
banking? According to
www.members.tripod.com/~american_almanac/prometh1.htm
“President
Lincoln had been murdered at the war’s end, and Secretary of State
Seward was no longer under Lincoln’s restraining hand. Seward now
worked for a British-allied New York and Boston political faction
representing all Lincoln fought against. Mexican Ambassador Romero
suspected treachery from Seward and had worked directly with Lincoln
during the war.”
Romero couldn’t
have liked Seward’s British connections, as the British were long
against silver money, and Romero wrote a pro-silver article, “The
Silver Standard In Mexico” in the North American Review, June 1895
(in which he mentioned the Bank of London and Mexico).
The 1969 list
for New York had a John Wesley Seward, an attorney (Sir Ivor was a
“barrister,” the British version of that term). John was a director
of the Diaz Corporation, which may be linked to Mexico. We had
another Pilgrim Society member linked to funding revolutionary
activity in Mexico earlier (read about the dangerous Mr. Pierce
later). Another Seward, George (born 1910---a member---I do not
know), was a director of Howmet Corporation (titanium and part of
the Mellon holdings) when its chairman was Pilgrim Society member
Eugene Robert Black, ex president of the World Bank, and director of
numerous corporations including Royal Dutch Petroleum; Scandinavian
Securities; Chase Manhattan Bank; Warner Communications; American
Express; New York Times; Cummins Engine and others. Black was
chairman of Brookings Institution, an anti-silver organization in
Washington, D.C. George Seward was a trustee of the Edwin Gould
Foundation, named after charter Pilgrim Society member Edwin Gould,
son of gold and railroad manipulator Jay Gould. George Seward, a
member of the Raven Society of the University of Virginia, was on
the legal advisory committee to the New York Stock Exchange,
1984-1987. He founded the International Capital Markets Group of
the International Federation of Accountants and was a member of the
Bohemian Club (San Francisco), which the Queen has visited. As of
1994 George listed his address at Hanover Square, London,
headquarters of the International Bar Association. Hanover Square
is named after the medieval Hanovers of Germany, whose wealthy royal
lineage traces into The Pilgrims of Great Britain and was part of
the name of a major United States bank---Manufacturers Hanover
Trust, headed notably by Pilgrim Society member Gabriel Hauge, who
sat on the Bilderberg steering committee.
Another Seward,
possibly George’s grandfather, George Frederick Seward (born 1840)
was American minister to China 1876-1880, and in 1893 became
president of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain. He had
residences in New York and New Jersey, yet was appointed to head a
British Empire organization, another example of “transatlantic
cooperation” of American and British elites. William Seward Pierson
(Skull & Bones Society of Yale, 1836) may have been another
relation.
G. William
Domhoff authored “The Higher Circles---The Governing Class in
America” (1970) and “The Bohemian Grove---A Study in Ruling Class
Cohesiveness” (1974). He mentions Bilderberg and the Council on
Foreign Relations in both books. In the first one the index
contains some 82 names identified as Pilgrim Society members, and at
least 17 in the second; nowhere does he mention the organization.
Probably he had no knowledge of it. Chapter three of his 1974 book
is entitled, “Do Bohemians Rule America?” The answer is yes---in
the same sense as the Skull & Bones Society, the Council on Foreign
Relations, the Trilateral Commission and the Rhodes Scholars. They
are all very important, yet mere fronts for the super-elite Pilgrim
Society, back of which there appears to be no controlling group!
SEIZING THE
WEALTH NECESSARY!
We’ve seen how
Pilgrim Society members such as William Simon were involved in
crushing the Dallas Hunt brothers in 1980, and Howard Hughes in the
early 1960’s. A key player in that event was “superstar banker”
Frederic H. Brandi of The Pilgrims, Dillon Read & Company and
American South African gold trust (ASA Ltd.—why bother listing all
the other boards he sat on?) (Below)---
Floyd Bostwick
Odlum (born 1892; The Pilgrims, 1969, information not found anywhere
else) was a billionaire, possibly several times over. (The list
does not state in which year members were admitted; many are
probably admitted by mid-40’s and most by age 50). The 1952 Who’s
Who, page 1832, had Odlum in the Piping Rock Club; the New York
Yacht Club; and the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club and the
Metropolitan---high powered clubs interlocked with The Pilgrims and
with most significant “globalist” societies. Ferdinand Lundberg in
“America’s 60 Families” (1937) page 32 said---
“The only
noteworthy postwar fortune belongs to Floyd B. Odlum, a Morgan
corporation executive formerly with the Electric Bond & Share
Company. Odlum formed the Atlas Corporation, an investment trust,
on the basis of a $40,000 investment in 1924. This enterprise now
participates in nearly every industry, having acquired its equities
at extreme depression lows. The New York Times of April 23, 1933,
reported that Atlas Corporation then owned assets aggregating
$100,000,000. Atlas assets are valued now at more than double this
sum; the corporation is probably the biggest investment
trust in the world. Odlum has been designated, with some truth,
the sole newcomer to win in the great postwar boom and collapse.”
Odlum went
short stocks before the October 1929 crash. At what point his worth
surpassed $1 billion, I haven’t determined, but several sources (www.nf104.com)
called him a billionaire. The Globe & Mail, October 12, 2002, had a
feature, “Billionaire Stock Tycoon Floyd Odlum.” Odlum was a heavy
holder of RCA (Radio Corporation of America) and General Dynamics
stock (www.collectspace.com)
His Atlas Corporation purchased Paramount Pictures in 1933 at
“basement” prices. Odlum was also chairman of RKO Studios, another
filmmaker. Atlas Corporation was once known as Atlas Utilities &
Investors Company. Odlum was also a heavy owner, through his Atlas
Corporation, of Greyhound Bus Lines; Northeast Airlines (nearly
90%); Bonwit Teller (department stores); Convair Aviation; United
Fruit Company; and Madison Square Garden. Odlum was “widely
reputed to be one of the 10 richest men in the world” (www.nationmaster.com).
He also was dominant in Barnsdall Oil Company. History News
Network, May 9, 2004, said of him---
“A powerful
financial wizard and industrialist, personally convinced Ike to
seek the office. The Odlum papers are at the Eisenhower Library.”
Odlum was
already personally involved with the office of the President. On
October 20, 1948, he met with President Truman (Truman Library
reference). American National Biography, published under the aegis
of the American Council of Learned Societies, 1999 edition, volume
16, page 623 said of Odlum---
“He built the
Atlas Corporation into one of the world’s greatest investment
corporations, controlling many companies in a vast array of
industries.”
Time Magazine,
September 12, 1942, said Odlum “buys everything for 50 cents on the
dollar.” In 1954 he bought the nation’s biggest uranium deposit in
Utah---the Hidden Splendor mine. Odlum was also the dominant
shareholder in Standard Uranium. John A. Roosevelt, son of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, became an officer and director of Standard
Uranium. John Roosevelt turned up on page 2820 of the 1981 Who’s
Who as a member of The Pilgrims and joined Bache Group in 1957,
where he was a director till 1981. Bache Group was founded by Jules
S. Bache of The Pilgrims, president and treasurer of Dome Mines (now
Placer Dome)---Who’s Who, 1928, page 203. Bache held interests in
chemicals; liquor; land; banking; railroads; insurance; copper
mines; oil; agriculture; and Chrysler Corporation. Bache Group
played a role in flushing the Hunt brothers down the COMEX silver
drain! Roosevelt was a trustee of Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship
Foundation, whose scholars favor weakening American national
sovereignty; a director of the Boy Scouts of America (thoroughly
infiltrated); and trustee, State University of New York and
Roosevelt College, Chicago.
The Atomic
Energy Commission was buying uranium from Odlum, especially in the
early 1950’s, that, in addition to his huge aviation interests, is
why he insinuated himself into confidentiality with several
Presidents. The 1952 Who’s Who, page 1888, shows Pilgrim Society
member Richard Cunningham Patterson Jr. (born 1886) as a director of
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, of which Odlum was
chairman (later Convair). Patterson was a “day laborer” in the
South Dakota gold mines, 1905-1907. In 1920 he became assistant to
the president of J.G. White Engineering Corporation. J.G. White was
listed in the 2002 Pilgrims of Great Britain book (page 185) as a
charter member in New York in 1903. In 1921-1922 Patterson was with
the Du Pont chemical conglomerate (Pilgrim Society, and big silver
users). In 1932-1936 he was a director of National Broadcasting
Company, owned by RCA and became assistant Secretary of Commerce,
1938-1939, where he was associated with the Export-Import Bank of
the U.S., a device for looting the taxpayers. In 1939-1943 he was
installed as chairman of Odlum’s RKO Corporation, and became
Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1944-1947; to Guatemala, 1948-1951; then
Ambassador to Switzerland. He was an administrative officer with
the American Commission to Negotiate the Peace, in 1919, whose role
was to insure that Germany would be so galled by the terms of
surrender that they’d attack Europe as soon as the next generation
reached soldier age.
Patterson, one
of Odlum’s key associates, was also a director of the China-America
Council of Commerce & Industry. Odlum was a trustee of the Army &
Air Force Aid Society and the American Institute for Foreign Trade
and as of 1952, was a past president of the important American
Arbitration Association. As of 1953 he was chairman of the
Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation, long associated with
pharmaceutical interests gouging the public. Odlum’s wife,
Jacqueline Cochran Odlum (deceased 1980) held more aviation records
than any other pilot---men included--- in history. She flew a
bomber to England in 1941 and became flight captain in the British
Air Transport auxiliary, training pilots. On return to the United
States she organized the WASPS---Women’s Air Force Service Pilots.
She was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal in 1945 and became a
lieutenant colonel in the USAF Reserves in 1948. She was the first
woman to break the sound barrier, in 1953; and flew twice the speed
of sound on June 3, 1964. In 1961 she achieved an altitude record
of 55,253 feet in an F-104G Starfighter and was the first woman to
make a “blind” landing.
Let’s take a
hard look at what this Pilgrim Society member, Floyd Odlum, did,
working with another Pilgrim Society member, Stuart Symington, to
“seize the wealth necessary.” Symington was chairman of Emerson
Electric Manufacturing Company, St. Louis, 1938-1945. In 1945-1946
he was Surplus Property Administrator in Washington, D.C., disposing
of unused war materials, probably at give-away prices, to his
Pilgrim Society network. From 1947 through 1950 Symington was
Secretary of the Air Force. In 1950 he became chairman of the
National Security Resources Board, which was suggestive of more
recent Presidential Executive Orders authorizing the “seizure” of
commodities in wartime. Symington was a personal friend of Floyd
and Jacqueline Odlum and entertained them in his Air Force
administrative office. Jack Northrop of Northrop Aviation was in
competition with Convair Aviation---controlled by Odlum---for
defense contracting business. Below, Pilgrim Society member Stuart
Symington (who became a Senator from Missouri in 1952) and his son
James became a Congressman from Missouri. In 1962 through 1965
James was administrative assistant to the Attorney General of the
United States. Before that he was assistant to the United States
Ambassador to Great Britain, John Hay Whitney, who turned up by 1973
as a vice president of The Pilgrims of the United States
Odlum wanted to
buy out Northrop on terms favorable to himself and bad for Northrop,
so Northrop declined. After that, the pressure mounted from
Washington against Northrop. In 1952 Jack Northrop sold out all his
Northrop shares and left the business. Symington, while Secretary
of the Air Force, cancelled Northrop’s B-49 Bomber project. General
Curtis LeMay, General George Kenney and General Henry Arnold
testified in favor of backing up Symington’s decision. Kenney,
Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire, sided against
Northrop, due to Odlum being a member of an interlocking British
Empire organization---The Pilgrims! Who’s Who, 1966, page 1135, has
Kenney stating he was president of the Arthritis and Rheumatism
Foundation since 1951 (of which Odlum was chairman!!) LeMay was at
that time, Air Force Chief of Staff and a personal friend of
Jacqueline Cochran! By the 1970’s LeMay was a trustee of the
National Geographic Society, another Pilgrim Society run
organization like the Smithsonian Institution. In 1980 Northrop
broke silence and said Symington cancelled the deal because Northrop
refused to merge with Convair, because Convair (Odlum) attempted to
put too harsh a deal with Northrop. Get this---as part of the
cancellation order, Secretary Symington ordered seven of the
Northrop B-49’s destroyed!
Concerning the
B-36 hearings after that contract cancellation---Northrop admitted
by 1980 (coincidentally, about when Odlum’s wife passed on) that he
(Northrop) lied under oath to Congress, because he was fearful that
Symington might “totally destroy” his company in retaliation for his
refusal of Odlum’s merger terms! There were rumors in the press at
that time that Symington was to be installed by Odlum as head of
Convair after the takeover of Northrop! Louis A. Johnson, Secretary
of Defense, later alleged that Symington conspired with Odlum to
switch Air Force contracts. For documentation supporting these
charges, refer to the House Committee on Armed Services
investigation of the bomber program, 81st session of
Congress, 1949, page 13; “American Combat Planes” (1982) by Ray
Wagner (Doubleday & Company); “Northrop Flying Wings” (1988) by
Edward Maloney (World War II Publications); “Truman” by David
McCullough (Simon & Schuster, 1992); “Northrop’s Big Wing” by David
Baker (Air International, June 1993); “B-2 Intrigue” by Graham
Stallard (Air International, August 1993, page 117); and “Big Bomb”
(Air International, November 1993, page 285).
This is what
happens when Pilgrim Society members conspire to ruin other rich
men. None of the above reference sources mention anything
concerning Odlum and Symington both being members of The Pilgrims.
Undoubtedly, not one of them knew anything about it; so
monumental is the wall of silence! In 1961
Odlum became chairman of Federal Resources Corporation and the 1966
Who’s Who, page 1592 listed him as chairman of the Lovelace
Foundation for Medical Education & Research at Albuquerque, New
Mexico. According to page 57 of that edition, Robert Orville
Anderson was vice chairman of the Lovelace Foundation. Anderson was
also listed at that time as chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of
Dallas and director of Atlantic Refining Company, whose major
stockholder was Pilgrim Society member David Rockefeller. Odlum,
who was also president of the Hertz Foundation for Science
Fellowships, was awarded the Presidential Certificate of Merit.
Many Pilgrim Society members have been closely involved with United
States Presidents, including billionaire Walter Annenberg of TV
Guide, with Nixon and Reagan. Take note---none of these Pilgrim
Society members---Odlum; Annenberg; Patterson; and Symington---were
Yale graduates, so we know they weren’t members of Skull & Bones.
Yet consider the huge power they exercised! Will someone allege
billionaires cannot be powerful, unless they belong to Skull &
Bones? Come on with that Skull & Bones theory already---it’s quite
inferior to The Pilgrims. Skull & Bones is a society junior to The
Pilgrims, because college age boys are admitted; admittance into The
Pilgrims appears to take place almost always after age 40. Again,
The Pilgrims is the only elitist Society of which the
President is always a member, regardless of which university
he came from. Annenberg became Ambassador to Great Britain,
1969-1974, which country set up Skull & Bones as an influence front
in America. The Pilgrims encompasses all the key elitist rich men
in America, whereas Skull & Bones encompasses only those from Yale.
Even at Yale it does not encompass them all---Scroll & Key is also
intensely significant; Wolf’s Head and Book & Snake are significant,
Berzelius appears to be the runt of the litter.
The case of
Odlum and Symington and their collusion to wipe out a man who
wouldn’t sell out at a lowball price is a glimmer---or a mirror---to
indicate also that The Pilgrim Society watches---observes---and
waits---to behold any entrepreneurs who build a very successful
company and then, either get taken over, squeezed out, or invited to
become part of the Network. And if the offer to affiliate with the
Network is declined, that rising company will come under fire and be
brought down, most likely by the machinery of the legal system. No
wonder some Supreme Court justices have been members or in their
orbit, and United States Attorney Generals including George
Wickersham and Herbert Brownell---two I recall without checking my
files. No wonder the Justice Department won’t investigate the
Silver Users Association as to anti-trust issues.
A final note on
Pilgrim Society member Floyd Odlum. Whereas he was obviously a
fanatic devotee of his own financial interests, he was actively
hostile to silver mining interests. Probably for two
reasons---industrial users like to steal silver cheaply, and because
Odlum had Federal Reserve connections, as we just saw. Paper money
creators detest silver! From 1940 through 1944 Odlum was a “special
advisor” to the Office of Price Administration, which placed a
Federal price cap on both domestic and imported silver! (See “War
And Silver,” Archives). You can be certain while Odlum was selling
uranium to the Atomic Energy Commission he didn’t want any Federal
price cap placed on THAT! Laws and regulations are crafted to harm
those outside The Pilgrim Society’s charmed circle of ultra-high
finance. That’s why they always have key representation in the
Senate and House; high-powered Wall Street attorneys are members; an
occasional Supreme Court justice; and more frequently, the Attorney
General of the U.S. Justice Department! The Atlas Missile program
was named after Odlum’s Atlas Corporation, the contractor, which was
used in the Apollo missions to send astronauts to the moon. Another
item on Odlum---his Atlas Corporation hired Alexander Gumberg after
he was deported from Norway for Bolshevik-related activities!
Considering the superabundance of evidence pointing to the national
and worldwide financial, political, social and educational influence
wielded by The Pilgrims, and the lack of indications as to their
being a front for any other society, the quote attributed to Adam
Weishaupt, founder of the Order of Illuminati, applies to them
better than to any other entity---
“The Order will
thus work silently, and securely; and though the generous
benefactors of the human race are thus deprived of the applause of
the world, they have the noble pleasure of seeing their work prosper
in their hands.”
MANY OTHER
ULTRA-POWERFUL MEN!
Have been and
are members of The Pilgrims besides Odlum. Consider Sir Siegmund G.
Warburg (Pilgrims of Great Britain list circa 1969). I have to
re-emphasize, for the sake of penetrating to the truth of the
matter, that Skull & Bones is an outer ring, whereas The Pilgrims is
the inner circle; there is nothing back of them; although, even they
have an inner core for whom other members are functionaries! No
member of The Pilgrims of Great Britain is a member of Skull &
Bones, so far as I have found in many long searches. Yet those
London Pilgrim Society members are possessed of financial power and
influence, which is very nearly off the scale. The Yale societies
were set up as influence fronts in the “Colonies” and as adjuncts to
the very dirty opium trade. But it is London that is the center of
24-hour international banking time and the world center of central
banking, dating to the founding of the Bank of England by Royal
charter in 1694. Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma, in favor of
silver money, complained about “Great Britain’s managed currency
bloc” (Commercial & Financial Chronicle, January 4, 1936, page 37),
a reference to its influence network of central banks around the
globe, chief of which is the U.S. Federal Reserve. During the
tenure of Cornell University graduate, Pilgrim Society member Henry
Morgenthau as Treasury Secretary, the “all-seeing eye” with its
Egyptian mysticism was placed on the Federal Reserve note--
“Annuit Coeptis”
has been widely and totally erroneously said to mean, “He favors our
enterprise.” Any Latin dictionary reveals the actual fact---it
means “Year of Conception,” that being a reference to the Roman
numerals at the base of the pyramid, which add up to 1776.
Unfortunately this isn’t a reference to the year 1776 in American
history, but to the so-called “Order of Illuminati” said to have
been founded in Ingolstadt, Bavaria on May 1, 1776 by a professor
Adam Weishaupt. I don’t plan to attempt looking at the twists and
turns of a mysterious force back of the stage of history, except to
say that organization was no different in basis than The Pilgrims or
any other such elitist group today. It is a maze of common roots
grown together, linked by flaming ambition the likes of which the
average person cannot relate to. The British Empire was already a
global force generations before the Bavarian Illuminati.
Eustace Mullins
in “Secrets of the Federal Reserve” (1983), page 68, had this
observation---
“No official of
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or of the Federal Reserve
Board of Governors, can command the power over the money of the
world which is held by these London merchant bankers. Great
Britain, while waning in military power, today exercises the
greatest financial power. It is for this reason that London
is the financial center of the world.”
New Haven,
Connecticut, site of Yale University and Skull & Bones Society, is
very much a junior operation beside the City of London. Literally
trillions in foreign exchange transactions are cleared monthly
through the London banking behemoths---Pilgrim Society run
institutions such as Barclay’s; National Westminster; HSBC Bank
Group; and Standard-Chartered Bank Group. To return to Sir Siegmund---
of the same Warburg banking dynasty related to the Rothschilds, and
whose representative, Pilgrim Society member Paul Warburg, was a
main driver in inflicting the Federal Reserve System on the American
public. Business Week, November 23, 1974, pages 92-93 had an
article on Sir Siegmund Warburg of S. G. Warburg & Company, London.
Warburg “created the huge Eurobond market” and (as of then) “still
runs the bank from his home in Switzerland.” Additionally, Warburg
“counts among his friends some of the most powerful men in
the world.” Small wonder that he did; he was a member of the
super-secret, all too influential, Pilgrim Society! His visible
wealth was only listed at some $750 million. George Warburg, his
son, also appeared in the late 1960’s list from London. S.G.
Warburg & Company was later run by Sir Siegmund’s understudy, Lord
Roll of Ipsden---most likely another member---who became one of the
controllers of Bilderberg with its program of indoctrination of
heads of state with the aims of world finance. No outsider can know
how much wealth the Warburgs have accumulated through involvement
with central banking because it would be to their detriment to have
it known. Central banking and fiat money creation is about wealth
transfer on the most enormous scale conceivable.
Back to the
issue of, does this organization truly qualify as a secret society?
Again they would say no; just look, they released a book called “The
Pilgrims of Great Britain---A Centennial History.” They had a list
of original members of the London lodge for 1902, and the New York
lodge for 1903. From other verifiable input, those lists are
abridged---not complete. Someone is still trying to conceal facts.
Furthermore, this book is far from a mass distribution item; I was
barely able to get a copy. There are a number of intentional
misstatements in the book (page 148 a key example) intended to
misdirect the reader’s beliefs. A key point to be made is---they
didn’t include a list of members as of 2002. Are the 2002 members
not just as important as the founding members; WHY must their
identity remain concealed? And if they purported to show a list of
original members for both branches, also, why did they not include a
United States list for 2002? Could it be they know that no one can
go to cemeteries and try to interview the deceased? And that the
living members anonymity will be shielded by nondisclosure? As they
say on page 15, “The list of members makes fascinating reading.”
Additionally, since the London branch thought it important to put
out a (limited circulation) book celebrating their first 100 years,
why has the United States branch not done so as well? They would
therefore have been due to put out a book in 2003; no such book has
appeared. Yet, should such a volume manifest, there would be no
point in its listing original members from 1903, unless it chose to
list all the original members (rather than just some of them in a
pretense of completeness!) Rockefeller, Harriman, Vanderbilt,
Whitney, Harkness, Pratt, Morgan, Mellon, Carnegie, Field and
others---do not appear at the start; yet, operatives of these
powerful families appear. What The Pilgrims could do, for the sake
of balance, is include a CURRENT list---but after all, they are
truly a secret organization and the full identities of all living
members must not be disclosed!
From the
beginning, this group has controlled the most important
informational media sources. We will take a glance at that point.
They control the two most important newspapers in existence---the
New York Times and The Times, London. They could get any publicity
they want. What they’ve done is to give themselves controlled
publicity---adequate to be able to say---“see, we’re not a secret
society!” But it is a hollow declaration because they most
important point is unsatisfied---they will not release their
membership identities! If any of you are able to obtain a copy of
the 2002 book, turn immediately to page 77. Notice the expression
of the tallest member in the lineup from the left to the middle of
the picture; study the expression of the member directly behind him;
and evaluate the expression of the member at the far left. They
looked like they were ready to split the rest of the country open
and skin it alive, which is exactly what they did in 1929-1934.
The following
brief New York Times article, dated December 13, 1973, page 28,
concerning an address by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to The
Pilgrims London was sent to me by The Pilgrims New York office, by
assistant secretary Mrs. E.M. Simpson along with her denial as to
their secret society status---
“Pilgrims
Society Seeks U.S.-British Friendship. Special to The New York
Times. London, Dec. 12---The Pilgrims Society, where Secretary
Kissinger spoke tonight, has been fostering British-American
friendship since 1902, when it was founded to “promote good
relations” between Britain and the United States. Among its
founders were Lindsey Russell of New York and Sir Harry Brittain of
London, now a centenarian and a frequent and valued speaker at the
society’s annual dinners here. There are American and British
chapters and the society’s dinners are held in London and New York.
The Pilgrims first dinner in 1903 was held in London. Chauncey
Depew addressed it and Field Marshall Earl Roberts, the British Boer
War commander, also among the founders, attended. The society’s
presidents have usually been ambassadors. Members and guests are
diplomats, high-ranking soldiers or other men of distinction in
many fields.”
The society’s
presidents have occasionally---not usually---been ambassadors. The
U.S. branch hasn’t had an ambassador for its president since before
1955. Notice they mention that “men of distinction in many fields”
are members---but no names! They speak of having high-ranking
military figures, and ambassadors, as members. We saw last December
that they always control the President of the United States, the
Secretary of State, and the U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain. Those
“men of distinction in many fields” include personalities who are
the wealthiest in the United States---and the facts look far
different from lists of rich rankings in Fortune or Forbes. They
control those magazines and can skew the facts any way they wish.
Those “men of distinction” include the leading bankers and
financiers---paper money creators who, having separated the
financial system from a gold backing, are therefore more free to be
the warmongers they are. That accounts for their inclusion of
Generals and Admirals in their ranks. We will meet some of these.
Another article
by which they could falsely claim to not be a secret society
appeared in The Times, London, February 10, 1982, page 10 and
read---
“The Pilgrims,
who promote Anglo-American understanding, have Senator John Tower,
chairman of the United States Senate Armed Services Committee,
coming to lunch at the Savoy on February 23. Tower, a tough
Republican, who won Lyndon Johnson’s seat two decades ago, is a
powerful figure, in some senses outranking the well-publicized
Secretary of State, Alexander Haig. On the other hand Haig was a
general. Tower, the only enlisted reservist in Congress, is still
officially a chief petty officer.”
We find the
same code language repeated over and over---“British-American
friendship,” and “Anglo-American understanding” being two choice
examples. What does this code language signify? It means that
Britain will continue to pursue dreams of World Empire, using the
might of America to back her up. We saw that in two World Wars and
all indications are we are readying to see it in a third universal
war! Like Ambassador Whitelaw Reid told his fellow conspirators in
London---
“Great Britain
could count upon every dollar, every man, and every drop of
blood in America.”
(Quoted in the
Congressional Record, August 21, 1940). I don’t feel that way. Let
England fight its own wars. This is the same country that attempted
to hold us in subjugation over two centuries past. Our patriots
died to free us from the Crown. Let’s not go back under it, nor be
used to fight its wars in the Middle East! The common man in
Britain can be seen as friends, but their leadership is dangerous
beyond words. Reid was special Ambassador of the U.S. to Queen
Victoria’s Jubilee, 1897, and again to the Coronation of King Edward
VII in 1902. Let’s conduct a review of some personalities listed as
original members of The Pilgrims 1903 New York, and of The Pilgrims
London, 1902, based on the list of names in their 2002 book.
Details come mainly from four separate Who’s Who volumes---Who Was
Who in America, 1897-1942; and 3 British Who’s Who versions,
published by Adam & Charles Black, London, covering deaths of
prominent persons from 1897-1950. We’ll look at some U.S.
personalities first. These are all men who passed away generations
ago. Out of the 158 I found listed in those 4 reference volumes,
only five (5) admitted posthumously that they were members of
“Pilgrims,” and those five were all from the London side. That was
8.6% for London, fewer than 3.2% for both branches total, and zero
for the U.S. branch alone! Not one of the 100 listed Americans
included in his biographical details the most important fact of
their lives---that they were members of The Pilgrims! It’s too
sensitive a matter for the world at large to become aware of, how
this elite crafts our destiny to our disadvantage.
A total of 374
names were listed, encompassing the total alleged membership in
London as of 1902 and New York as of 1903 (combined for both
branches). 129 names were listed for London---34.5% of the admitted
or alleged total. Assuming the actual ratio was the same with a
somewhat larger figure (450 to 500 names) it appears that Americans
are happy to join the British Empire scheme. 58 of 129 names for
London were found in the 3 British Who’s Who volumes---about 45%.
Many important people refuse to be listed. For the United States
names, only 100 out of 245 names listed were found in the 1897-1942
Who Was Who---just fewer than 41%. Of the 100 listed members (all
“underground” in the Who’s Who), only 7 were Yale graduates, and no
details were given as to any membership in the Yale
“super-fraternities.” Other schools similarly represented were
Harvard and Columbia. Some choice details now follow!
Major General
Leonard Wood (1860-1927; Pilgrims 1903), Grand Officer, Order of the
Golden Grain (China); Grand Officer, Order of the Rising Sun
(Japan); Grand Officer, Legion of Honor (France); Grand Officer,
Order of Mauritius and Lazarus (Italy); Roosevelt Medal; Ambassador
to Argentina (1910); Chief of Staff, United States Army, 1910-1914;
Commander, Department of the East, 1914-1917; chairman, special
mission from U.S. to Philippine Islands, visiting Japan and China,
1921; governor-general, Philippine Islands, 1921. Candidate for
Republican Presidential nomination, 1920; Congressional Medal of
Honor, 1898, “for distinguished conduct in campaign against Apache
Indians.”---
PILGRIM SOCIETY
member! Military men are in the secret organization alongside the
financiers the better to wage their wars. Adna Romanza Chaffee
(1842-1914) was another member in 1903. According to the Combined
Arms Research Library at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas---
“General
Adna R. Chaffee was the first soldier in American history to enlist
in the Army as a private and then advance through the ranks to
become Chief of the Army General Staff. Answering President
Lincoln's call for volunteers, he joined the 6th Cavalry Regiment
and participated in nearly all major cavalry actions of the Civil
War.”
“Following
the Civil War, he fought Indians and chased outlaws in the southwest
territories for more than twenty years. In the Spanish-American War,
he commanded the first unit to sail for Cuba and eventually became
Chief of Staff of the American Command during that war.”
“He
commanded American troops in China during the Boxer Rebellion and
led the expedition that raised the siege of the legations at Peking.
In Peking he upheld his reputation as a fighter and gained
additional recognition as a skilled diplomat and administrator.”
The Boxer
Rebellion, dramatized in the film with David Niven and Charlton
Heston, “55 Days at Peking” (1963) came about due to Chinese
Imperial weariness of the British poisoning the population with
opium. Chaffee---
According to
a website on the Philippine-American War---
“Adna Romanza
Chaffee was born in Ohio in 1842. A veteran of the Civil war and
countless Indian campaigns, he served throughout the
Spanish-American War, and commanded American troops in the
capture of Peking, China, during the Boxer rebellion. He replaced
MacArthur as head general of the Philippines on July 4, 1901.
Chaffee was the “soldier’s soldier,” a tough, hard-riding cavalryman
who despised civilians in general and intended to crush the
“insurrection.” He appointed Gen.
Bell to Batangas and
Smith to Samar, with orders to do whatever was necessary to
destroy the opposition--he wanted an Indian-style campaign instead
of the previous “humanitarian warfare.” Chaffee’s orders were
largely responsible for the atrocities that marked the
later stages of the war. When the war ended in 1902, Chaffee
returned to the States, where he served as lieutenant general and
Chief of Staff for the U.S. Army from 1904-1906. He retired in 1906
and died in 1914.
"If you should
hear of a few Filipinos more or less being put away don't grow too
sentimental over it."
--Chaffee, to newspaper correspondent Joseph Ohl.”
Joseph Wheeler
(1836-1906) was identified in the 1942 and the 2002 Pilgrim books as
a founder in London in 1902. He was a brigadier general in the
Confederate Army who was wounded three times, had 16 horses shot out
from underneath him, and 8 of his staff killed and 32 wounded. He
commanded in “50 cavalry battles and hundreds of minor combats” (Who
Was Who, 1897-1942, page 1329). After the war he became an attorney
and planter and was a Congressman from Alabama, 1881-1899.
From 1886
through 1900 Wheeler was a Smithsonian Institution regent. He was
involved in military actions in Cuba in 1898 and the Philippines,
1899-1900 and became a United States Brigadier General in 1900. Do
you find it strange that a passionate Southerner and Confederate
general would become a founder of an organization, the American
branch of which was based in New York, leading city of the despised
“Yankees?” The British built warships for the South during the
conflict and assisted them with exports. According to books such as
“Money Powers of Europe” (1938) and “History of the Southern
Confederacy” (1954), the English Rothschilds were involved in
backing both sides, the North through financier August Belmont; the
South through the Erlangers, family relatives. Wheeler in battle
uniform---
Guess what!
Surprise, surprise! The 2002 Pilgrim book lists August Bellmont
(should be spelled with one l) as a 1903 member in New York
(below)---
Another
military figure in the 1903 Pilgrim list was Julius Stahel (born
Hungary, November 5, 1825) who “fought in struggle for Hungarian
independence under Louis Kossuth, 1848, and was wounded and
decorated for gallantry; came to America, 1856; awarded Medal of
Honor, November 4, 1893, for leading his division after he was
severely wounded, and turned the enemy’s flank, at Piedmont,
Virginia, June 5, 1864. Covered retreat of Union Army at head of
his regiment at 1st battle of Bull Run; commanded advance
column of General Fremont’s army in Shenandoah Valley; commanded
brigade, 2nd battle of Bull Run; sent for by President
Lincoln and assigned to command in front of Washington, March 13,
1863. Appointed consul at Yokohama, Japan, and consul general at
Shanghai, China, 1884.” (Who Was Who, 1897-1942).
Charles Francis
Roe (1848-1922) was in the 1903 list and “served on frontier in
Indian campaigns, including the Custer massacre, 21 years.” (WWW,
1897-1942). Rose was a real estate operator and married Katherine
Bissell Bogert, whose middle and last names correspond to names of
Pilgrim Society members in more recent years. I succumb to the
temptation of saying, I wish the entire founding membership of The
Pilgrims could have been wiped out at the Little Big Horn---it is
not any exaggeration to state, we might have been spared World War
I. There can be no other reasons for including military men in the
membership other than to control the military, and to draw on their
experience in planning wars the financiers intend to start!
Samuel Baldwin
Marks Young (1840-1924, Pilgrims 1903) was a lieutenant General from
Pittsburgh who fought in the Civil War, fought in the
Spanish-American War (1898-1899) and was Presidential Chief of Staff
in 1903. He became the first president of the War College,
1902-1903, in Washington, D.C.
Richardson
Clover (1846-1919, Pilgrims 1903) married Mary Eudora Miller,
daughter of Senator John F. Miller and was a career Naval officer.
In 1897-1898 he was chief of the Office of Naval Intelligence;
member of the Board on Construction of Vessels, 1897-1899; member
War and Strategy board, 1898; commanded U.S.S. Bancroft, May 1,
1898, until end of Spanish-American War; served as Naval Attaché in
London, 1900-1903; commanded as Rear Admiral, the U.S.S. Wisconsin,
Asiatic region, 1904-1905; and served as president of the Board of
Inspection, 1906-1908.
John Calwell
Calhoun (1843-1918, Pilgrims 1903) was with the Confederate Army at
the Battle of Fort Sumter. His wife, Linnie Adams, was grandniece
of Richard M. Johnson, vice president of the U.S., 1837-1941. After
the war he had agricultural interests in Alabama, Mississippi and
Arkansas and was part of the management of the Cotton Exposition in
1884 at New Orleans. He was special ambassador to France in 1897,
sent by the S.A.R.---Sons of the American Revolution (France
assisted the Colonies in becoming free from the British). Calling
himself a “financier” (perhaps the Erlangers put him in business) in
the 1897-1942 volume, he was president of the Baltimore Coal Mining
& Railroad Company and “Albertite Oilite & Cannel Coal Co. Ltd.”
Henry Clark
Corbin (1842-1909, Pilgrims 1903) was a Northern Civil War combatant
as a brigadier General of volunteers. He was detailed for duty in
March 1877 at the Executive Mansion (White House) and was secretary
of the Sitting Bull Commission. According to page 260 of the
1897-1942 Who Was Who, Corbin was “with President Garfield at the
time he was shot and at his bedside at Elberon, where he died. In
recognition of his services, and the part he took in war with Spain,
Congress conferred upon him the rank of major General commanding the
Atlantic Division, 1904.” There are other Pilgrim Society members
who mysteriously appeared close at hand on the scene of other
Presidential assassinations, as we shall see!
William Cary
Sanger (1853-1921, Pilgrims 1903) was assistant Secretary of War,
1901-1903 and was related to the Dodge family (copper mining) and
the Clevelands of Presidential fame; President Grover Cleveland was
in the 1903 list. Sanger was a governor of the New York State
Society of Colonial Wars; and governor general of the Order of
Founders and Patriots of America. Upon his entry into The Pilgrims,
British Crown organization, I must assume some of the founders and
patriots of America turned over in their graves. Sanger was a
member of the New York State Commission on Lunacy, 1910-1911. Well,
was he “paranoid” for taking with him to his grave, the fact of his
Pilgrim Society membership?
FINANCIERS &
INDUSTRIALISTS
Henry Phipps
(1839-1930, Pilgrims 1903) was a business partner with Andrew
Carnegie in steel and came out of that enterprise with $75 million
or more in 1901 dollars. In 1861 Phipps was a partner in Bidwell &
Phipps, agents for the DuPont Powder Company, helping soldiers kill
on the Civil War battlefields, but himself practicing patriotism
from a safe distance. He made a “gift” to Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, in 1908 for America’s first clinic for the “treatment of
mental illness;” apparently he was afflicted with a “personality
disorder” because he neglected to mention his Pilgrim Society
membership in the 1897-1942 volume; rather, the explanation, from
their viewpoint would be, we’re not “mature” enough to understand
their motives and goals, so it’s best we don’t know they exist, or
if we know, to withhold the current list from us. In “The Rich and
the Super Rich” by Lundberg (1968) he tells us on page 199 about the
Bessemer Investment Company (later Bessemer Securities Corporation),
the family holding company for Phipps interests, which at that time
was identified as a major owner of New England Power; International
Hydroelectric and International Paper. It was called Bessemer Trust
after the Bessemer steel process. According to
www.bessemer.com they control $42.4 billion in investment funds
and says of themselves, “For nearly a century, Bessemer Trust has
been defining wealth
management.”
It is certain
that several of its directors are members.
George Edward
Ide (1860-1919, Pilgrims 1903) was with Dominick & Dickerman,
investment bankers, 1881-1890 and became president in 1894. He was
a director of Home Life Insurance; Brooklyn City Railroad; Title
Guarantee & Trust Company; and Fidelity & Casualty Company.
Dominick & Dickerman later became Dominick & Dominick and in 1949
Avery Rockefeller Jr. entered the firm. The 1966 Who’s Who, page
1800, shows he was a member of The Pilgrims; director of Grolier
Incorporated, encyclopedias; governor, New York Stock Exchange and
chairman of the National Association of Securities Dealers,
1962-1963. His father was a member also and intentionally caused
the investing public losses which in 2005 dollars would run into
many billions!
Isaac Newton
Seligman (1856-1917, Pilgrims 1903) married into the Loeb family of
financiers; Wall Streeter John L. Loeb Jr. appeared as a member of
The Pilgrims as of 1970’s Who’s Who volumes. J. & W. Seligman &
Company opened up in Manhattan in 1878. Its offices were later at
54 Wall Street and it was interlocked with Anglo-California Bank.
It controlled, among other entities, Butte Copper & Zinc Company of
Helena, Montana. Page 154 of “Our Crowd---The Great Jewish Families
of New York” (1967) described Isaac Seligman’s meeting in London
with Baron Rothschild, who sat in Parliament for 23 years and was
London correspondent for their financial operations (pages
154-157). In their first transaction of $55 million, Stephen
Birmingham said on pages 156-157---
“The Baron
suggested the issue be backed by a combination of three houses---the
House of Rothschild, the House of Morgan, and the House of
Seligman. The Seligmans were now participating in the most powerful
combination in the history of banking. The
Seligman-Belmont-Morgan-Rothschild alliance was so successful that
by the end of the decade there were complaints on Wall Street that
London and Germany based bankers had a monopoly on the sale of
United States bonds in Europe, which they virtually did. The
Seligmans were now being called the “American Rothschilds.” In
London Isaac understood the simple rule of Rothschild protocol. It
was he who must always go to the Rothschild offices in New Court.
The Baron would never deign to visit him, and Isaac would not have
had the impertinence to ask him to. In New York the
Seligman-Rothschild alliance did little to further the Seligmans’
progress towards assimilation. As the decade drew to a close, there
were more dark mutterings of an “international conspiracy” of Jewish
bankers to take over the world’s money.”
Isaac Seligman
met Lincoln at a White House reception (page 154). As far as one
religious group is concerned, taking over the world’s money, hasn’t
exactly happened, as I see it. The Rothschilds do have the
strongest mystique as world financiers, but other non-Jewish power
blocs such as the Mellons, Du Ponts and Rockefellers are sufficient
to conclude that this peenomenon isn’t a factor of one religious
group. Rather, it is a factor of these power blocs all uniting in
The Pilgrim Society to “take over the world’s money! Isaac Seligman
was a trustee of Munich Reinsurance Company; Russia Reinsurance
Company (suggesting funding of Bolsheviks); Lincoln Trust Company;
U.S. Savings Bank;; treasurer, City & Suburban Homes Company. The
Seligmans intermarried with the Guggenheims (South American mining
fortune) who also have representatives over the years in The
Pilgrims. Louis Stern (1847-1922, Pilgrims 1903) was another
director of Lincoln Trust; of Atlantic Mutual Insurance; Mutual
Insurance; and was United States Commissioner at the Paris
Exposition of 1900. Birmingham called the Seligman firm in New
York, “World Bankers” (page 94).
Lyman Judson
Gage (1836-1927, Pilgrims 1903) was Treasury Secretary in the
cabinets of Presidents McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, 1897-1902,
in which capacity he opposed silver in the monetary system. Before
going to Treasury he was president of the First National Bank of
Chicago, and after Washington he became president of United States
Trust Company on Wall Street. He was a three-time president of the
anti-silver American Bankers Association (ask any member how they
feel as to remonetization of silver). Gage was first president of
the Chicago Bankers Association, twice president of the Civic
Federation of Chicago and a trustee of the Carnegie Institution of
Washington. Gage took the financial editor of the Chicago Tribune,
Frank Vanderlip, and got him into the banking business as his
assistant at Treasury. Recall that Pilgrim Society member Vanderlip
was at the Jekyll Island, Georgia meeting where the
Morgan-Rockefeller interests finalized plans for the Federal Reserve
System! Gage--
Frank Arthur
Vanderlip (1864-1937, Pilgrims 1903) became vice president of the
Stillman-Rockefeller dominated National City Bank, in 1901. By 1909
he was president of the bank. Page 1268 of the 1897-1942 Who’s Who
says he “has resigned from numerous directorates.” He was a trustee
of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
(one-world viewpoints); New York University; Massachusetts Institute
of Technology; and chairman, Scarborough School. He was on the
executive committee of the New York State Chamber of Commerce and
wrote “What Next In Europe” (1922) and “Tomorrow’s Money” (1934).
In “Secrets of the Federal Reserve” (1983) Mullins described him on
page 19 as what we’d call in plain language, a liar---below---
In “America’s
60 Families” (1937) Lundberg tells us on page 121---
“The Jekyll
Island conference took place in the atmosphere of an elaborate
conspiracy. The trip to Georgia was made in a private car chartered
by Aldrich, and the travelers all used assumed names so that the
train crew would not establish their identities. For a long time
there was no public knowledge that such a conclave had been held.”
Richard Aldrich
McCurdy (1835-1916, Pilgrims 1903) was related to Senator Nelson
Aldrich (Pilgrims 1903), architect of the Federal Reserve System.
After Harvard, McCurdy practiced law with Lucius Robinson, who later
became Governor of New York. McCurdy held interests in the Mutual
Life Insurance Company of New York, was a director of Guaranty Trust
and practiced law with Lucius Robinson, who became a New York
Governor. Robert H. McCurdy, his son, also appeared in the 1903
list. Richard’s sister Gertrude married Gardiner Hubbard
(1822-1897) who was the financial backer of Alexander Graham Bell.
In fact Hubbard’s daughter Mabel became Mrs. Bell.
C.W. Bonynge
(Pilgrims 1903) wasn’t listed in the 1897-1942 Who Was Who.
However, Robert William Bonynge, evidently a relative, was listed.
We learn that R.W. was a Republican Congressman from Colorado
(mining state turncoat), 1905-1909, and was a member of Senator
Aldrich’s National Monetary Commission, campaigning for a central
bank, 1909-1912. According to page 116 of the 1897-1942 Who Was
Who, he “delivered addresses throughout U.S. in behalf of monetary
reform under auspices National Citizens League.” Some of those
National Citizens were probably Pilgrim Society members. Paul
Bonynge (deceased 1937) was a New York State Supreme Court justice,
1933-1937.
Jefferson
Monroe Levy (deceased 1924, Pilgrims 1903, Who Was Who, 1897-1942,
page 724) was “author and first to introduce Reserve Bank Bill, 62nd
and 63rd Congresses” (1911-1915) and “inherited
“Monticello,” the home of Thomas Jefferson.” Jefferson would be
chagrined to know that a paper money mobster came into possession of
his estate! For “Reserve Bank Bill” read “Federal Reserve Bank
Bill.” According to
www.savingmonticello.com Jefferson Levy “made a fortune in real
estate and stock speculation. By the turn of the 20th
century, he was one of the wealthiest men in America.” Jefferson
Levy---
Grover
Cleveland (Pilgrims 1903) became President of the United States in
1884, running against James Gillespie Blaine, who himself later
turned up a Pilgrim Society member! Cleveland was again elected
President in 1892. According to the 1897-1942 Who Was Who, page
231---
“In 1896 the
Democratic Party having declared for the free coinage of silver in
the platform of its National Convention, Mr. Cleveland withheld his
support from the ticket and platform. Elected trustee, holding a
majority of the stock of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of
U.S., June 10, 1905. Member executive committee, National Civic
Federation. Trustee Princeton University.” Silver enemy
Cleveland---
Cleveland was
known to be on terms with J.P. Morgan (Pilgrim Society) whose banks,
along with the other huge Pilgrim Society run institutions, waged
war on silver as money since at least 1878. Other Pilgrim Society
members were lurking behind the National Civic Federation. Domhoff
in “The Higher Circles” (1970) said the National Civic Federation
“is crucial to an understanding of how the power elite shaped social
legislation in the twentieth century.” For more on the National
Civic Federation see
www.theharbinger.org/xix/010206/walker.html
Henry Clay
Pierce (1849-1927, Pilgrims 1903) was chairman of National Railways
of Mexico; chairman of Pierce Oil Company, St. Louis; chairman,
Tennessee Central Railroad; and president, Pierce Investment Trust.
According to
www.picturehistory.com ---
“Henry Clay
Pierce was a businessman and financier who was considered one of
the four richest men in the country. His business interests
included railroads, oil and finance. Pierce Oil later became a
subsidiary of Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Co.”
According to
Lundberg in “America’s 60 Families,” page 124---
“Percy N.
Furber, president of Oil Fields of Mexico, Ltd., in 1918 told C.W.
Barron “the Mexican revolution was really caused by H. Clay
Pierce” who owned thirty five percent of the stock of the
Pierce-Waters Oil Company, which Standard Oil controlled through a
sixty-five percent stock interest, and was a confidential
Rockefeller henchman. “He wanted to get my property,”
said Furber, who continued---“H. Clay Pierce demanded of Diaz that
he should take off the taxes on oil imports” to enable Standard Oil
to bring in products from the United States. “Diaz refused.
Pierce put up the money behind Francisco Madero and started the
revolution.”
Here we find
another case of a Pilgrim Society member crushing the fortune of a
non-member---even going so far as to use revolutionary violence to
oust a foreign head of state to have his destructive way! This
Pierce was a real life, overblown version of the “Mr. Pierce” of
“The War Wagon” (1966), a film about a gangster who took over land
owned by John Wayne after railroading him into prison, then found
large amounts of gold there. This is another instance of what The
Pilgrims mean when they talk about “the seizure of the wealth
necessary.” Charles Beecher Warren at age 33 became a charter member
of The Pilgrims in 1903, general counsel to the National Bank of
Commerce of Detroit. He was a member of the Republican National
Committee, 1912-1920 and Ambassador to Japan, 1921-1923, when he was
appointed to lead the High Commission to Mexico that negotiated the
terms for resumption of diplomatic relations, May through September
1923, then became Ambassador to Mexico. The money powers sent him
there to serve their interests after the destabilizations and
revolutions. Warren was protégé of Donald McDonald Dickinson
(1846-1917, Pilgrims 1903) was a member of the Democratic National
Committee, 1880-1885 (the Society realizes the importance of
controlling the nominating process at the national level) and was
Postmaster General of the United States, 1887-1889 and president of
the Detroit Museum of Art. Warren was a contender for the Attorney
General position in the Coolidge administration.
John George
Milburn (1851-1930, Pilgrims 1903, born at Sunderland, England) was
an attorney and presided over the Pan-American Exposition at
Buffalo, New York, in 1901. He was president of the Pan-American
Exposition Company, representing business interests targeting the
southern hemisphere. According to the 1897-1942 Who Was Who, page
837, “President McKinley was taken to his house after fatal assault
and died there.” I’ve seen allegations in various places that
McKinley wasn’t willing to warm up to Great Britain---the reason for
his demise? Milburn was a director of Chase National Bank
(anti-silver); American Express; National Park Bank; and New York
Life Insurance Company. Milburn was a trustee of Columbia
University, Barnard College, and the New York Public Library. He
was president of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York,
1919-1920. Milburn was a member of the Board of Commissioners of
Statutory Consolidation, which consolidated all the legal statutes
of New York State dating to 1777.
Elijah Watt
Sells (1858-1924, Pilgrims 1903) was employed by various railroads
owned by wealthy operators including the Vanderbilts, who through
front men such as Chauncey Depew and Lindsay Russell, founded The
Pilgrims along with British interests (Rothschilds and Windsors,
British Crown). Page 1103 of the 1897-1942 Who Was Who stated---
“With late
Charles Waldo Haskins, was selected by joint commission of 53rd
Congress, 1893, to effect a revision of the accounting system of
U.S. Govt. with a view to simplifying and expediting public business
(the most extensive and important undertaking of the kind in the
history of the country). At the conclusion of this work, 1895,
established firm of Haskins & Sells, of which is now senior member.”
Arthur Bevins
Foye (born 1893, Pilgrims 1969 list) was senior partner at Haskins &
Sells. He was a past president of the Far-East America Council of
Commerce & Industry; trustee, New York University; director,
Pan-Africa Society; and trustee, U.S. Council of the International
Chamber of Commerce (Who’s Who, 1966, page 713).
John B.
McDonald (1844-1911, Pilgrims 1903) was an agent of the Vanderbilts
in building tunnels, bridges, railroads and subways in New York and
elsewhere. He was president of the Interstate Tunnel Railway and
vice president of Interborough Metropolitan Transit---
George Fisher
Baker (1840-1931, Pilgrims 1903) was head of the powerful First
National Bank of New York and held interests in many industries from
railroads to water to insurance and was a director of “numerous
companies and “many other corporations” (Who Was Who, 1897-1942,
page 47). One of those was the First National Bank of Chicago.
Others included American Telephone & Telegraph; First Security
Company; New York & Long Branch Railroad; Jersey City Water Supply
Company; Erie Railroad; New York Central Railroad; West Shore
Railroad; Pullman Company; Astoria Light & Power; United States
Steel; New Jersey General Security Company; Consolidated Gas; and
Mutual Life Insurance. His grandson appeared in the 1969 list and
the middle Baker was also almost certainly a member (also a director
of General Motors); he was father in law to John Mortimer Schiff,
third generation Pilgrim Society member at Kuhn, Loeb & Company,
which later merged with Lehman Brothers, another Pilgrim Society
investment bank. The Baker fortune was estimated at some $500
million as of 1924 (“America’s 60 Families,” page 26).
George
Walbridge Perkins (1862-1920, Pilgrims 1903) became a partner in
J.P. Morgan & Company in 1901 and was a director of International
Mercantile Marine Company; United States Steel; Florida East Coast
Railway; American Alliance Insurance; Great American Insurance;
Northern Securities Company; and International Harvester, and
trustee, Vassar College. “America’s 60 Families” by Lundberg, page
97, told how Perkins, towards the close of the Wilson
administration, chose Will H. Hays, “a small town Indiana lawyer”
and made him chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Robert A.C.
Smith (deceased 1933, Pilgrims 1903) chairman, White Rock Mineral
Springs Company; New Niquero Sugar Company; president, Connecticut
Railway & Lighting Company; director, Brothers Valley Coal Company;
Connecticut Light & Power Company; Mohawk Hudson Power Corporation;
Connecticut Electric Service Company “and officer or director
various other corporations” (1897-1942 volume, page 1148) He was
also New York Dock Commissioner.
Charles Tyson
Yerkes (1837-1905, Pilgrims 1903) was listed on page 1389 of the
1897-1942 Who Was Who where we read---
“Was prominent
in street railway operations in Philadelphia from 1860, and after
1886, in Chicago, where he was long at head of the North and West
Side and several suburban and elevated railway corporations; later
engaged in financing, organizing and managing extensive system of
underground railway in London. Gave to University of Chicago a
telescope costing about $400,000 (then one of the largest and finest
in the world, located in the Yerkes Observatory at Lake Geneva,
Wisconsin.)”
That was Yerkes,
above, sporting a British Empire looking mustache and missing only a
pith helmet and a cup of Lipton tea. Even as a dead man Charlie
couldn’t stand to be known as a Pilgrim Society member, so it fell
to someone else to turn over the rock so interested parties could
see what was hiding underneath. Yerkes owned two-thirds of the
street railway system of Chicago.
William Henry
Crocker (1861-1937, Pilgrims 1903) was the son of Charles Crocker of
the Southern Pacific Railroad and associated interests, who passed
away in 1888 leaving a fortune of at least $40 million, a lot of
money by most standards today, a blue whale of a lot of money 117
years ago. William’s brother in law was Charles B. Alexander of the
International Banking Corporation who was a Pilgrim Society member
as of the 1927 Who’s Who. William Crocker was president of Crocker
First National Bank of San Francisco; Crocker Investment Company;
Provident Securities; Pacific Improvement Company; director, Pacific
Telegraph & Telephone; Pacific Mutual Life Insurance; Pacific Gas &
Electric and Metropolitan Life Insurance. He was a regent of the
University of California and a 33rd degree Mason.
Lundberg in “America’s 60 Families” page 383 had this comment---
“Among the
trustees of the University of California are William H. Crocker,
descendant of a member of the lawless Crocker-Huntington-Stanford
railroad group.”
Below, William
Henry Crocker, and the Crocker Mansion in San Francisco--\
Myron T.
Herrick (1854-1929, Pilgrims 1903) was an Ohio attorney who was
chairman of the Society for Savings, Cleveland. As he moved upwards
in the power structure he became chairman of Union Carbide & Carbon
Company (now part of Dow Chemical, Silver Users Association).
Herrick was a director of New York Life Insurance Company and was a
Presidential elector for Ohio in 1892 and was a member of the
Republican National Committee. Herrick was Ambassador to France,
1912-1914, and again beginning in 1921. He served as a president of
the American Bankers Association (paper money mob, anti-silver) and
was on close personal terms with President McKinley and before that,
while McKinley was Governor of Ohio. Herrick was a trustee of the
Carnegie Institution of Washington—
Benjamin Newton
Duke (1855-1929, Pilgrims 1903) was the power behind the ruthless
monopoly known as the American Tobacco Company and was president of
Durham & Southern Railway and Erwin Cotton Mills, and director of
Durham Realty and Southern Power Company---
The Dukes
today control the huge Duke Endowment which listed $2.3 billion in
admitted assets at year-end 2003; Duke University; and Duke Energy,
the dominant electric utility in the Mid-Atlantic States. According
to Lundberg in “America’s 60 Families,” page 357---
“Duke, the
tobacco king, distributed his property before his death, thus
avoiding inheritance or estate taxes. One-third was kept under Duke
control by segregation in the Duke Endowment, for the benefit of
Duke University. Controlling blocks of tobacco and public utility
stocks were given to the Endowment, to be used in the domination of
certain companies. THE GREATEST SECRECY SURROUNDS THE DUKE
ENDOWMENT.”
According to
Lundberg in “The Rich And The Super Rich” (1968, page 190), as of
then, Duke ownership of Duke Power Company (now Duke Energy) was
82%. As of 2003, Duke Energy had annual revenues of $59.5 billion
(billion, not million). Williamson Whitehead Fuller (1858-1934,
Pilgrims 1903) was general counsel to the American Tobacco Company
“and many other corporations” (Who Was Who, 1897-1942, page 432).
Edward Julius
Berwind (1848-1936, Pilgrims 1903) was chairman of Berwind-White
Coal Mining; president, Wilmore Coal Company; Ocean Coal Company;
Kentland Coal & Coke Company; Wilmore Steamship Company; “also
officer or director numerous other corporations.” (Who Was Who,
1897-1942, page 89). Some of those entities included---Subway
Realty Company; Wilmore Steam Ship Company; Clyde Steam Ship
Company; Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Steam Ship Lines; Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe Railway; Prescott & Phoenix Railway; Cuba Railroad
Company; Colorado & Santa Fe Railway; Interborough Rapid Transit;
New York & Long Island Traction Company; Long Island Electric
Railway Company; Rapid Transit Subway Construction; New York &
Queens County Railroad; New River & Pocahontas Consolidated Coal;
Archer Coal Depot; Maritime Coaling Company; Puerto Rico Coal;
Mutual Life Insurance; Windber Pennsylvania Trust Company; Berwind
Bank; Guaranty Safe Deposit Company; Newport Trust Company; Guaranty
Trust Company of New York; North British & Mercantile Insurance; and
Girard Trust, an institution founded by Stephen Girard, who was in
league with the British as head of the first Bank of the United
States till 1811. According to Myers in “History of the Great
American Fortunes” (pages 74, 76 & 77), speaking of Girard---
“The grand
climax of the galaxy of American fortunes during the period from
1800 to 1831 was that of Girard. He built what was looked up to as
the gigantic fortune of ten millions of dollars and far over-topped
every other strainer for money except Astor, who survived him
seventeen years, and whose wealth increased during that time to
double what Girard left. During the British occupation of
Philadelphia Girard was charged by the revolutionists with extreme
double-dealing and duplicity in pretending to be a patriot, and
taking the oath of allegiance, while secretly trading with the
British. None of his biographers deny this. While merchant after
merchant was being bankrupted from disruption of trade, Girard was
incessantly making money. Not the least of his profits came from
slave trading. From this time on his profits were colossal. His
wealth was overshadowingly great, his power immense. He was a
veritable dictator in the realms of finance; a repellant man, with
his devil’s eye, who rode roughshod over every obstacle in his
path. His every movement bred fear; his veriest word could bring
ruin to anyone who dared cross his purposes. Appeals to him for aid
went unanswered. No poor man ever came full-handed from his
presence.”
Lundberg in
“America’s 60 Families,” page 182, noted---
“On the board
of the Guaranty Trust Company, directing its participation in
situations like the Van Sweringen bubble, sat E.J. Berwind, head of
a great nineteenth century coal fortune.”
The Berwind
fortune was reckoned at some $150 million in 1924 dollars (Lundberg,
page 26). So we see that Berwind, who became a member of the
premier British Empire organization---The Pilgrims---had a hand in
Girard Trust, a major banking establishment left by the second most
important British collaborator of the nineteenth century (Astor was
the most important). The Berwinds were involved with the
Rockefellers (page 94) and also with J.P. Morgan & Company (page
237) and Lundberg said (page 323) that the Berwinds with their
“tremendous accumulation” (page 36)---
“have no
reasonable claim to significant philanthropic intention at all.”
Harvard
Business School’s list of Great American Business Leaders of the 20th
Century said of Berwind---
“Berwind was
reputed to be the world’s largest individual owner of coal mining
properties. Berwind also was considered a hard-driving
businessman. He refused to bargain with employees.”
Berwind was a
member of the Bankers Club (New York) and the Pilgrim Society
offshoot, the Japan Society.
Moses Taylor
(1871-1928, Pilgrims 1903) was with Kean, Taylor & Company,
investments. The Kean in that firm could be an ancestor of Thomas
Kean, ex New Jersey governor who headed the 9-11 Commission, a
cover-up exactly similar to the Warren Commission on the Kennedy
assassination. Taylor was chairman of Lackawanna Steel;; president,
New York & Queens Gas Company; and director, Westchester & Bronx
Title & Mortgage; Lake Champlain & Moriah Railroad; South Buffalo
Railway; and Tilly Foster Iron Mines. According to Eustace Mullins
in “Secrets of the Federal Reserve” (1983, page 64), Taylor’s father
was worth $50 million---as of 1864! The Taylors owned many shares
in the National City Bank---a predecessor to today’s Citigroup.
Time, January 31, 2005, page 21 reported the death of Walter B.
Wriston, “financial guru who as chairman of Citicorp from 1967 to
’84 redefined the way Americans use banks,” and remained silent as
to his Pilgrim Society activities. In 1812 the City Bank, later
called the National City Bank, opened up for business in the same
building where the defunct (as of 1812) first Bank of the United
States was located---a British affiliated institution.
James Robert
Keene (1838-1913, Pilgrims 1903) appeared on page 659 of the
1897-1942 Who Was Who---
“Stockbroker
etc; born London, England, 1838; went with family to California,
1852; became miner in California and Nevada, later speculator in
mining stocks, San Francisco; accumulated $6,000,000 during
“bonanza” period of the 70’s; was president San Francisco Stock
Exchange; since 1877 an operator on Wall Street, New York.”
Thomas F. Walsh
(1851-1910, Pilgrims 1903) had a brief profile in the 1897-1942 Who
Was Who, which, like all other listed 1903 Pilgrim Society members
in the United States, failed to state that fact in the biographical
volume! Page 1294 reads---
“Engaged in
mining business, made close study of geology, mineralogy,
metallurgy, the deposition of ore bodies and the development and
treatment of ores and was instrumental in introducing new methods of
treatment. Developed, equipped and is large owner in the Camp Bird
mines, Ouray, Colorado. One of the National Commissioners to Paris
Exposition, 1900.”
According to
www.miningfoundationsw.org Walsh was in on the Black Hills,
South Dakota gold rush in 1874; in 1877 he bought the Grand Hotel in
Leadville, Colorado; and set up operations in 1881 at the Camp Bird
Mine (near the Sneffels range) west of Ouray. We read---
“Walsh’s
daughter Evalyn married Edward Beal McLean, heir to the Washington
Post and Cincinnati Enquirer and they became co-owners of the
infamous Hope diamond. The Walshes were friends of presidents and
kings and Mr. Walsh represented the United States at the World
Exposition in Paris, having been appointed to that position by the
President.”
Thomas Walsh
was associated with another Pilgrim Society member, John Hays
Hammond, who met Cecil Rhodes in South Africa during the British war
against Dutch settlers over control of mineral wealth. The
President sent Hammond to the Royal Coronation in London of King
George V in 1911. The 1929 Who’s Who, page 949 tells us that
Hammond was a “special expert with the U.S. Geological Survey in
1880, examining California gold fields.” After that he went into
Mexico, returned to San Francisco and became a consultant to Union
Iron Works, and Central and Southern Pacific Railways. We read
further that he---
“Has examined
properties in all parts of world; became consulting engineer for
Barnato Brothers 1893, and later for Cecil Rhodes, of whom he became
a strong supporter; consulting engineer, Consolidated Gold Fields of
South Africa, British South Africa Company and Randfontein Estates
Gold Mining Company; went to London and became interested in many
mining companies; returned to U.S., 1900, and became associated with
some of the most important financial groups in this country,
purchasing and promoting several of the largest and most valuable
mining properties in U.S. and Mexico; has also been very active in
various interests outside of mining, including hydro-electric
enterprises, irrigation projects, etc.”
Hammond was
president of the American Institute of Mining Engineers in 1907-1908
and was president of the Panama Pacific Exposition in 1912; chaired
the World Court Congress 1914-1915, which created the World Court, a
strategy to undermine sovereignty of individual nations and shift
power to his British-American Secret Society. He chaired the United
States Coal Commission, 1922-1923 and was president of the National
League of Republican Clubs. Hammond was on a personal basis with
Presidents Grant, Hayes, Taft, Theodore Roosevelt and Coolidge. His
son John Jr. was the inventor of the remote control, did extensive
radio research for the Navy and held more patents than anyone since
Thomas Edison. Hammond Sr. omitted details of his Pilgrim Society
activities from Who’s Who---
Another Pilgrim
Society member active with Thomas Walsh was Alfred Chester Beatty,
who appeared on page 247 of the 1927 Who’s Who as a graduate of the
Columbia University School of Mines. He was with the Guggenheim
interests who, according to Stephen Birmingham in “Our Crowd” (1967,
page 24) became “staggeringly rich” and had an “explosive
presence.” Beatty was an engineer at Chino Copper mines;
Esperanza Mining; Utah Copper; and Camp Bird Limited. He was a
director of Chino Copper; Guggenheim Exploration; Nevada
Consolidated Copper; New River Collieries; Ray Consolidated Copper;
Columbia Trust Company; J.G. White Engineering; then moved to London
where he became chairman of African Selection Trust Limited; Tetuihe
Mining Corporation; Burma Corporation Limited; Bwana M. Kubwa Copper
Mining; Consolidated African Selection Trust Limited; Metals
Production Ltd.; Rhodesian-Congo Border Concessions; Southern
Rhodesia Base Metals Corporation; and Venezuelan Oil Concessions.
Beatty operated out of “Baroda House,” London, headquarters of some
of the British exploitation of India and the Far East. I advise any
concerned mining shareholders present at annual general meetings to
ask the question, are any senior members of management or directors
members of The Pilgrims, because if that’s the case, the rank and
file are at risk of a financial dislocation.
George Gray
Ward (1844-1922) turned up as a Pilgrim Society member about 1904
(2002 book, page
77). Ward’s listing in the 1897-1942 volume, page 1297 is as
follows---
“Capitalist;
born Hertfordshire, England, December 30, 1844; educated at
Cambridge. Associated with late John W. Mackay in organizing the
Atlantic and Pacific submarine cables of the Commercial Cable
Company; general manager Commercial Pacific Cable Company; vice
president Postal Telegraph Cable Company; The Mackay Companies;
president U.S. & Hayti Cable Company. Decorated by Emperor of
Germany with decoration of Royal Prussian Crown, 1900, in connection
with laying submarine cable between U.S. and Germany, and by Emperor
of Japan with insignia of Commander of the Rising Sun, 1906, on
completion of cable between U.S. and Japan.”
Page 763 of the
volume listed John William Mackay (deceased 1902), Ward’s business
partner---
“Capitalist;
born Dublin Ireland, November 28, 1831; moved with family to New
York, 1840; learned shipbuilding trade; went to California, 1851; to
Nevada, 1860; engaged in mining; had two-fifths share in “Bonanza”
mines of the Comstock Lode, which made him one of the richest men in
the world. Established (with Messrs. Flood and Fair) Nevada Bank,
San Francisco, becoming its president; established (with James
Gordon Bennett) the Commercial Cable Company.”
Bennett was
owner of the New York Herald. William K. Vanderbilt Jr. of one of
the founding families of The Pilgrim Society, married California
Senator James Fair’s daughter, linking the Comstock silver strike
fortune with the Vanderbilts. Lundberg (1937) noted the fortune was
“based upon the fabulous Ophir silver mine.” Darius Mills was
another who made a huge fortune in Nevada mining silver. Whitelaw
Reid, Pilgrim Society member, publisher of the New York Tribune and
Ambassador to Britain, 1905-1913 was Mills son in law. His
grandsons, Ogden Reid, Ambassador to Israel, 1959-1961 and U.S.
Congressman, and Whitelaw Reid, both became Pilgrim Society members
and both were members of Book & Snake Society (Yale). Ogden Mills
(Pilgrim Society), grandson of Darius Mills, was Treasury Secretary
1932-1933 and inherited $40 million from his grandfather, who opened
the National Gold Bank in San Francisco in 1840---first bank west of
the Rocky mountains---helped finance the Southern Pacific Railroad
(another Pilgrim Society operation) and was first president of the
Bank of California in 1864.
Charles
Hamilton Sabin was identified by Congressman Thorkelson (referred to
previously) as a member. Page 2007 of the 1933 Who’s Who---in which
he was “underground” or incognito (silent as to his status as a
Pilgrim) shows he was a director of the Mackay Companies and
Commercial Cable Company. Sabin was a director of numerous large
corporations such as Shell Oil; Owens-Illinois Glass Company;
Inspiration Consolidated Copper; International Mercantile Marine;
Air Reduction Company; Vanadium Corporation and others and was
president of Morgan Guaranty Trust. The 1943 Who’s Who showed Cecil
Parker Stewart (Pilgrims U.S.), Canadian born, as another Mackay
director, plus the expected number of other directorships such as
American Merchant Marine; U.S. Marine & Foreign Agencies; American
Cable & Radio; Lawyers Title Corporation; Pilot Reinsurance;
Atlantic Coast Fisheries; Bloedel Lumber Mills; All-America
Corporation; Electric Ferries; Securities Corporation General;
United States Life Insurance; Bondholders Protective Committee and
others. The 1979 Who’s Who, page 2575, showed incognito Pilgrim
Society member Warren Lee Pierson (1969 leaked list) as president of
Commercial Cable Company and Mackay Radio & Telegraph. Did you
notice the price run-up in molybdenum lately? Pierson (decorated by
7 nations) was a director of Molybdenum Corporation and with Pilgrim
Society member Charles C. Tillinghast Jr., ran Trans World Airlines
after Pilgrim Society members David Rockefeller and Frederic H.
Brandi ousted nonmember Howard Hughes (see February 2005 installment
in this series). Pierson was a delegate to the Bretton Woods
Conference in 1944, which did so much to move us towards a full fiat
currency system.
Here we’ve seen
that Pilgrim Society members and their partners were directly linked
to the great Nevada silver rush. Yet the Society was behind the
creation of the Federal Reserve and attacks on the use of silver as
money. Apparently it was OK for them to make fortunes mining
silver. If WE start to do so---at that point, it will NOT be OK
with The Pilgrim Society for us to do well in silver---because we’re
not members!
Charles
Augustus Peabody (1849-1931, Pilgrims 1903) was the product of two
wealthy old-line families. His mother was Julia Caroline
Livingston, of an old Colonial times fortune. Gustavus Myers in
“History of the Great American Fortunes” described the founder of
the Livingston fortune, Robert Livingston (1654-1728), pages
44-45---
“Robert
Livingston, progenitor of a rich and potent family which for
generations exercised a profound influence in politics and
other public affairs, contrived to get together an estate which soon
ranked as the second largest in New York state and as one of the
greatest in the Colonies. In currying favor with one official after
another he was unscrupulous, dexterous and adaptable. He invariably
changed his politics with the change of administration. In less
than a year after his arrival he was appointed to an office which
yielded him a good income. This office he held for nearly half a
century, and simultaneously was the incumbent of other lucrative
posts. Offices were created by Governor Dongan apparently for his
sole benefit. His passion was to get together an estate which would
equal the largest. Extremely penurious, he loaned money at
frightfully usurious rates and hounded his victims without a
vestige of sympathy. Livingston was in collusion with Captain
Kidd, the sea pirate.”
“As a trader
and government contractor he made enormous profits; such was his
cohesive collusion with high officials that competitors found it
impossible to outdo him. A current saying of him was that he made a
fortune by “pinching the bellies of soldiers”---that is, as an army
contractor who defrauded in quantity and quality of supplies. By a
multitude of underhanded and ignoble artifices he finally found
himself the Lord of a manor sixteen miles long and twenty-four
broad. On this estate he built flour and saw mills, a bakery
and a brewery. In his advanced old age he exhibited great piety but
held on grimly to every shilling that he could and as long as he
could. When he died about 1728---the exact date is unknown---at the
age of 74 years, he left an estate which was considered of such
colossal value that its true value was concealed for fear of
further enraging the discontented people.”
Charles
Augustus Peabody’s father was Judge Charles Peabody, and might be a
relation to George Peabody, original U.S. partner of J.P. Morgan.
Charles Peabody was president of Mutual Life Insurance Company of
New York; chairman executive committee, Illinois Central Railroad;
and director Georgia Railway Company; Atlantic Mutual Insurance;
Oregon Short Line Railroad; Union Pacific Railroad; Delaware &
Hudson Company; Central Georgia Railway; Church Pension Fund;
Farmers Loan & Trust; and the National City Bank. Edward Coleman
Delafield (born 1877) appeared in the 1960 Who’s Who, page 730,
showing both of his parents were of Livingston lineage---apparently,
a marriage of cousins---and in 1920 Delafield was president of the
Bank of America. After that he went to City Bank, New York, till
1937, when he formed Delafield & Delafield, a stock exchange
member. Delafield was a director of Virginia Railway; Fidelity &
Casualty Company; Pemeta Oil; J.G. White Engineering; General
Precision Equipment Corporation; Greenwich Savings Bank; Corona
Brewing Company; and National Dominican Brewery. He was a director
of Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research and a member of the
Descendants of Colonial Lords of Manors in America, a reflection on
his Livingston ancestry. He was also a member of the Society of the
Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, the
spirit of which was totally opposite that of his Pilgrim Society
activities! A likely relation, Louis L. Delafield was president of
the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1911-1912.
William Butler
Duncan (1830-1912, Pilgrims 1903) appeared in the 1897-1942 volume,
page 346. It reads “Banker, New York, 1851-1875; president,
1874-1888, chairman board of directors since 1888, Mobile & Ohio
Railroad Company. He owned large plantations in Mississippi and was
a major shareholder in the Bennington Vermont & Woodford Electric
Railway. He was the major shareholder in Atlantic & Great Western
Railway; Civil War General George McClellan was one of his business
partners. On January 25, 1873, Duncan paid $100,000 to buy the
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