From this building John D. Rockefeller sent out the order to his brother Frank Rockefeller "You are fired", thereby relieving his brother of the presidency of Buckeye Steel Casting Company in Cleveland, Ohio. The job was filled by appointing Samuel Prescott Bush as the new president. The Bush family was to prosper as Rockefeller servants for the four generations starting with Sam Bush, Merchant of Death.
26 Broadway was world headquarters for Standard Oil from purchase to the time that the Rockefeller Center opened.
From 26 Broadway John D. Rockefeller sent out the order to his hired killers to use the four machineguns they had to destroy the strikers camp at Ludlow, Colorado. For four hours on April 20th, 1914, the guns fired and firebombs were thrown killing entire familes. 19 children, women and men were murdered in what is known as the Ludlow Massacre. These are the exact same murderers-for-hire Rockefeller employed in the same acts at Paint Creek, Cabin Creek, West Virginia coal wars of 1912-1913 cloaked behind the secretly owned Charles Pratt and Company located at 26 Broadway. (See entry: 26 Broadway NYC -- Paint Creek & Ludlow Colorado Mass Murders.)
Two weeks earlier Rockefeller sent gunmen dressed in US Marine uniforms into Veracruz, Mexico, with machineguns blazing. Author Jack London reported the events in Colliers magazine. His words are more eloquent so I refer you to them instead of paraphrasing. OUR ADVENTURERS IN TAMPICO.
A man who was there in Tampico wearing one of those US Marines uniforms was Smedley Butler who retired as Brigadier-General. His words are well spoken by a re-enactment of one of his speeches WAR IS A RACKET.
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."
In 1914 these Rockefellers located in this building were acquiring through marriage the REMINGTON ARMS company, which began a massive building expansion in 1915, just in time for the US entry into WWI. Percy Rockefeller orchestrated the Rockefeller interests in Reminton Arms and appointed Samuel Pryor to head the company at the headquarters across the street at 25 Broadway in the Cunard Building. Ultimately, Percy Rockefeller and Samuel Prior were responsible for filling the Cunard steamship Lusitania with 4 million rounds of .303 Remington cartridges which brought the US into the war.
Some of the companies where Percy Rockefeller was director include NATIONAL CITY BANK (Citicorp) where he and a brother married two daughters of the bank President James Stillman. This bank evolved into Citibank and Citicorp, or just CITI in TV ads today, although an entity with the original name is active again as National City Bank.
Percy Rockefeller helped fund W.Averill Harriman & Company investment bank across the street at 39 Broadway, and was a director of it.
In 1922 Harriman met with Hitler's financier Fritz Thyssen to open a NYC branch of Thyssen's Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart (BHS) of the Netherlands. The NYC bank was called Union Banking Company also located across the street upstairs from Harriman, with Rockefeller servant Sam Bush's son Prescott as president of this bank. Percy Rockefeller was director. It opened in 1924 and continued through the rise of Hitler until 1942, eight months after Pearl Harbor.
Percy Rockefeller was also a director of AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL COMPANY, at 120 Broadway, along with the same board at NATIONAL CITY BANK. AIC is the parent of A.I.G. insurance company that got hammered in housing mortgage frauds that toppled the US economy in 2008. What happened in between is a lot of Merchants of Death stuff told at the appropriate map point 120 Broadway.
Percy Rockefeller was also director of GEORGIAN MANGANESE CORPORATION, (SOVIET MINING CONCESSION), along with directors E. Roland Harriman, Matthew Brush, George Herbert Walker.
It is error to think that the Remington Arms was very profitable to the family that brought us into WWI. They profited mightily, but it was their railroads, their coal, their steel, and most certainly their oil that profited the most. The Remington Arms was dumped soon after WWI to the Dupont family whose closest relative built the building at 120 Broadway just down the street.
Buckeye Steel Castings switched to casting cannon barrels and shell casings, but Samuel Bush moved in the spring of 1918 to became chief of the Ordnance, Small Arms, and Ammunition Section of the War Industries Board of Bernard Baruch and Clarence Dillon, with national responsibility for government assistance to and relations with Remington and other weapons companies.
In 1946 Standard Oil of New Jersey (then called Esso) moved to 75 Rockefeller Plaza in 1946. The Mobil division moved to 150 East 42nd Street in 1954. Standard sold the building in 1956.
