More than 80 years after his death, Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller remains one of the greatest figures in the ...

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It has been a little over a century since oil baron John D. Rockefeller became the ... of rags-to-riches opportunity and hard work." Philanthropy also leads to tax cuts and many believe that ...

The family’s fortune, established by America’s first billionaire John D. Rockefeller Sr., the founder of the Standard Oil Company in ... on being successful. Philanthropy has been a ...

it was a permanent corporate philanthropy on a scale never before seen — a charitable trust to parallel the oil trust that had made it possible. The Rockefeller Foundation has given away about ...