"Sloat" Quotes from Famous Books
... a blow at the capital, Mexico City. The deed was done with speed and pomp and two heroes were lifted into presidential possibilities. In the Far West a third candidate was made, John C. Fremont, who, in cooeperation with Commodores Sloat and Stockton and General Kearney, planted the Stars and ... — History of the United States • Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard
... a transgressor, Ebenezer J. Sloat, President of the Leather Combine. His single fortune is $80,000,000. This man succeeded in effecting a consolidation of all of the leather producers; now the nation pays the Trust a royalty on every pair of shoes that ... — The Transgressors - Story of a Great Sin • Francis A. Adams |