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James Sullivan Clarkson forwards a letter to President Roosevelt from a Mr. Scott of the Pacific Company concerning a business investment in Peru.
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1905-02-01
President Roosevelt writes to Joseph Bucklin Bishop saying he is pleased Bishop decided to go to Panama and that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt sends her love to the Bishops. Roosevelt also mentions General Thomas H. Hubbard and his prompt reply.
1907-07-12
President Roosevelt thanks Joseph Bucklin Bishop for his letter explaining General Thomas H. Hubbard’s desire to have his international bank appointed as the fiscal agent for the Government of Panama. Roosevelt asks Bishop to tell Hubbard that he will discuss the matter with Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw.
1904-01-22
President Roosevelt asks Joseph Bucklin Bishop to ask General Thomas H. Hubbard about his plans for a financial agency in Panama.
1904-01-20
President Roosevelt writes to Joseph Bucklin Bishop about the establishment of General Hubbard’s Thomas H. business in Panama.
1904-01-17
President Roosevelt understands why Joseph Bucklin Bishop could not bring General Hubbard and gives Bishop permission to show Hubbard the letter regarding Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw’s position. Roosevelt is concerned about Edward Henry Harriman having supported New York City Mayor-Elect George McClellan.
1903-11-05
President Roosevelt will discuss General Hubbard’s company serving as fiscal agent to the government of Panama with Secretary Shaw. He believes what Hubbard desires can be done.
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1904-01-22
President Roosevelt asks Joseph Bucklin Bishop to meet with General Hubbard and determine his desires regarding the financial agency in Panama.
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1904-01-20
President Roosevelt asks if he can communicate with General Hubbard through Joseph Bucklin Bishop regarding Hubbard’s firm being established as a financial agency in Panama.
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1904-01-17
President Roosevelt has spoken with Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw, who was unaware of Roosevelt’s relations with Joseph Bucklin Bishop or that Bishop worked for the Commercial Advertiser. Shaw felt comfortable introducing Oscar S. Straus to General Thomas H. Hubbard because they knew each other from their time in Iowa. Shaw spoke of Straus’s character and did not request a favor for Straus or intend to offend Bishop.
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1903-11-02
President Roosevelt will speak to Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw when he returns to Washington, D.C., and asks Joseph Bucklin Bishop to bring General Thomas H. Hubbard to lunch sometime next week.
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1903-10-30
Herbert L. Bridgman informs President Roosevelt that, among other packages, he has received packages for Roosevelt and his wife from Robert E. Peary in the arctic.
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1908-10-15
John J. McCook relates to President Roosevelt the results of his meeting with Thomas H. Hubbard. Hubbard has convinced the publishers of the Globe newspaper that the editorial policy of the paper can no longer remain neutral but must, instead, emphatically endorse the Republican party in the upcoming elections.
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1904-08-22
John J. McCook informs President Roosevelt that he has just visited Thomas H. Hubbard concerning the editorial position of the Globe.
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1904-08-22
Whitelaw Reid discusses an issue addressed in a previous letter from Nicholas Murray Butler and comments that everything depends on General Hubbard. Reid believes that, regardless of the newspaper’s prospects, it will reach a wider circulation than other Republican newspapers. It is lonely to be a supporter of the current administration in New York newspapers and it would be wrong to substitute “a perfunctory for a zealous support.”
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1904-02-08
Bishop sends President Roosevelt a report of his conversation with General Thomas Hubbard. Bishop asks that if the President decides in favor of his request, he let Hubbard know that Bishop had some influence in the decision.
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1904-01-21
Joseph Bucklin Bishop has met with General Hubbard and Hubbard would like the International Bank to be the government’s fiscal agency in Panama. Hubbard had a fiscal agent visit Panama and he found no financial institution of any importance. Hubbard believes his bank could be very useful to American interests. Bishop believes that the proposal is “reasonable and proper.”
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1904-01-21
Joseph Bucklin Bishop writes to President Roosevelt regarding the recent mayoral election in New York City, in which George McClellan defeated Seth Low. Bishop says the election was “bought up by Whitney, Ryan, Belmont, and Harriman.” Bishop also discusses a recent conversation with General Hubbard concerning Leslie M. Shaw and relays that he will not accompany Hubbard to Washington, D.C.
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1903-11-04
Joseph Bucklin Bishop writes to President Roosevelt in regards to a conversation he had with General Hubbard. Bishop discusses a key player whom he describes as “the jew.” Bishop believes that Hubbard was duped by “the jew” and blames Mr. Shaw, a cabinet member under Roosevelt’s administration, for supporting and bestowing power to this figure. Bishop sends kind regards to Mrs. Roosevelt and relays that his wife is doing well.
Joseph Bucklin Bishop warns President Roosevelt that “the Jew” has withdrawn and that he will discuss the matter with General Thomas H. Hubbard. Bishop alerts Roosevelt that “the Jew” has the support of Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw and Iowa Governor Albert Baird Cummins, and that he may run for President in 1904. Bishop believes there is a “Jew syndicate” that wants to control the press.
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1903-10-24