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and the GOP. The result was a deep split in the new party that was never resolved. Perkins was in effective control of the party in 1913, but the
Progressives fared poorly in local elections. He went public with his denunciations of antitrust programs, arguing, "The country knows that the Progressive
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on the East side of the Hudson. He had been accumulating properties since 1895 to create a great estate along the river, including Oliver
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greenhouses, a swimming pool, terraces and the recreational facility; rare trees and shrubs were planted on the lawns, and gardens were created to blend with the natural beauty of the Hudson highlands. The property is now Wave Hill, a public botanical garden and cultural center.
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The fundamental principle of life is co-operation rather than competition... Competition is cruel, wasteful, destructive, outmoded; co-operation, inherent in any theory of a well-ordered
Universe, is humane, efficient, inevitable and
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There will be public sorrow as there is a public loss in the untimely death of George
Walbridge Perkins before he reached his sixtieth year. His career was one of devotion to the service of the State and the
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rejected his nomination as
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