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Chapter 1

New Haven City in southern Connecticut; home to Yale University.

The Great War World War I

Midas and Morgan and Maecenas Midas, in Greek Myth, the king of Phrygia granted the power of turning everything that he touches into gold; J.P. Morgan (1837–1913), U.S. financier; Gaius Clinius Maecenas (70–8 BC), Roman statesman and patron of Horace and Virgil.

Goddard's The Rise of the Colored Empires an allusion to Theodore Lothrop Stoddard's The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy (1920).

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