John Davison Rockefeller Jr.

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled

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Born	1874-01-29
Died	1960-05-11
Father	John Davison Rockefeller
Mother	Laura Celestia Spelman Rockefeller

Father of David Rockefeller.

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First President of Rockefeller Foundation 1913-05-22 1917

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Chair of the Board of Trustees of Rockefeller Foundation 1917 1940

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John D. Rockefeller Donates Land For U.N. Building In New York To Be Built On 1946

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John D. Rockefeller Jr. purchased 18 acres of land in New York and donated it to the United Nations - so that they could build their headquarters on it.

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Of these the most influential is what is called "education." Religion plays a part, though a diminishing one; the press, the cinema, and the radio play an increasing part. What is essential in mass psychology is the art of persuasion. If you compare a speech of Hitler's with a speech of Edmund Burke, you will see what strides have been made in the art since the eighteenth century. What went wrong formerly was that people had read in books that man is a rational animal, and framed their arguments on this hypothesis. We now know that limelight and a brass band do more to persuade than can be done by the most elegant train of syllogisms. It may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if the can catch the patient young and is provided by the State with money and equipment.
-Bertrand Russell