William J. Curtis person
also: Curtis
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to go against what was in the best interest of the United States, especially the southern states because he hated them. So he goes to Washington on a crusade to persuade Congress to take over his client's lease of the Panama Canal project. …
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But Cromwell and Curtis went down there to argue about the Panama and that we just couldn't abandon it because he's now hired by the French company who's going bankrupt and wants to basically sell it and make some money off of it. Other inv…
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Cromwell and Curtis tried to show as many legislators as possible all of the statistic maps and everything else that they had already done and that it was 40% finished, according to them. So he thought that he was going to be able to wear h…
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lawyers into his suites at the Shoreham Hotel. And after Reed had presented the case for the Panama Canal to Reed, he and Curtis said, basically, what is it, what's in it for your company? Curtis said that we just want you to look at it. It…
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He let Cromwell speak, but he said nothing. Determined to make America build the canal on his terms with the fringe at least partners in the project, Cromwell rushed back to America to stop another bill pushing the Nicaraguan canal before t…
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American newspapers called for the French to basically get out of this entire conversation. They said that they were arrogant, obstinate, blah, blah, blah. Curtis, who had accompanied Cromwell to Washington, regretted that the firm was invo…