Metropolitan Steamship Company organization

“No, they don't. And it's really funny. You bring up both Hawaii and Panama and others. Before we're done today, I'll show you some more skull and bones connections to all of those endeavors because it's deep. They're all over the place. Int…”

“Any relation to the senator? Who knows? You may want to look into that. They love naming rights like that. It's crazy. And we see it throughout the story that we're telling. The mother's maiden name becomes the middle name, and it goes down…”

“married into the Whitney family, the scandal-free Whitney family that nobody knows about. And there were tons of accusations of corruption that all got swept under the rug. It's a familiar pattern. These are supposed to be the pure and prop…”

“Big position. Yes. So this guy gets that job. And then Lincoln, when he gets elected, removes him because he was a Democrat. So we get through civil war. He doesn't do a whole lot. Northern Democrats were opposed to the war. A lot of them g…”

“Not doing anything really particular until the Civil War. War breaks out, and he goes to New York City and gets into the shipping business and becomes an agent of, of course, the Metropolitan Steamship Company, his father's company. He woul…”

“Secretary of the Navy. His brother, a guy named Henry Melville Whitney, not a bonesman, happened to be the president of a company called Metropolitan Steamship Company, and then he was the founder of Dominion Iron and Steel Company. Guess w…”

“Made a little bit of a name on his own. He worked for the Metro Steamship and Dominion Steel, as well as other Whitney family businesses. They named a 2,625-ton steamship, called the HF Dimock, after him. So the family liked him a lot. The …”

“This guy, the connector there is a guy by the name of H.B. Coolidge. And I don't know if he's related to Calvin Coolidge, but he would clerk for both Russell and Metro shipping lines. The estimates I saw is a pound of opium brought over fro…”