Rebirth of America, this is my era

Chapter 215 The most powerful gigolo in history!

Now that Spielberg has sorted out the Columbia Pictures check fraud case very clearly, Ethan and Evelyn no longer have the heart to play around.

The two chartered a plane back to California overnight. The next day, Ethan went to Stanford and hugged the old president's thighs again. While he was crying, a fax document full of pinholes appeared in his hands. This was Steve Ross's latest information.

After a quick look, Ethan found that the content was roughly similar to Spielberg's investigation.

but--

That doesn't mean Spielberg is right about everything he says.

Because the information obtained by the old principal showed that Steve Ross had recently divorced Carol Rosenthal and was now pursuing a woman named Amanda Cushing Mortimer.

This fact made Ethan frown.

"Is this guy so ruthless?"

He muttered to himself.

Although Ethan had known from his education in his previous life that capitalists were inhumane, he was still somewhat surprised when he actually saw someone abandoning his wife and children.

After all, Carol Rosenthal was no poor wife!
She is the woman who helped Steve Ross achieve a class leap!

And after Steve Ross became rich, he chose to kick this woman away?
Dig!

This only shows that he is very insidious!
Do whatever it takes to succeed!

"Ethan, what are you mumbling about?" When Ethan frowned and lamented that his opponent didn't seem to be so easy to be killed, the old principal, who was curious about why Ethan was in a daze, also poked his head over.

I glanced at the file...

He smiled and said, "Oh, it turns out that Steve Ross has found a new backer..."

"What?" Ethan was a little surprised by the old principal's words.

"Principal, what do you mean?" he asked.

Fred Terman pointed to Amanda Cushing Mortimer on the document.

"It's normal that you don't know this woman. After all, you are not from the academic circle."

"Amanda Cushing Mortimer is the daughter of Barbara Cushing, one of the three Cushing sisters."

"And the father of the three Cushing sisters was Harvey Cushing."

“Harvey Cushing and my dad were contemporary.”

“But his achievements in academia are… greater than my dad’s.”

"Is it true?" Ethan didn't believe it.

Evelyn had told him before that President Fred Terman's father was also a professor at Stanford University with great attainments in the field of psychology. At the same time, his father had also participated in projects of the US Department of Defense. So far, the psychological tests for new recruits used in the US military were all written by his father.

In this case, the guy named Harvey Cushing is more powerful than his father?

"Why did I lie to you?"

President Fred Terman rolled his eyes at Ethan and said, "Academics can be faked, but a pioneer in a field cannot fake his own academic achievements. Harvey Cushing is such a person."

"He is a pioneer in brain surgery and the first doctor in our country to specialize in neurosurgery. The Cushing's reaction and Cushing's syndrome in the medical field were defined in his name. The textbooks on brain and spine surgery in the medical field are all written by him. Do you think he is amazing?"

‘Fuck! ’

Ethan was shocked.

He really doesn't know these things.

But he was also weird at the same time.

No matter how great Harvey Cushing is, he is just a giant in the academic world. Steve Ross's relationship with his granddaughter will not help Warner Communications' business in any way.

After he asked what he was thinking, Fred Terman, who was still in the midst of recollection, poked at the information unhappily and said, "Mortimer! Mortimer! Mortimer is the key!"

"Haven't you heard of the Mortimer family? They were real estate tycoons from the last century!"

"Going back further, they are the result of the marriage between John Jay and Robert Livingston! They also have a good relationship with the Tilford family!"

Perhaps because the old principal called out the names of many families like calling out the names of dishes, Ethan did not understand for a while. After he frowned to express his confusion, the old principal immediately asked him to get a pen and paper and started drawing a relationship map of their circle.

The mother of Amanda Mortimer, the girlfriend that Steve Ross is dating now, is the daughter of Harvey Cushing, a pioneer in brain surgery, and the ancestors of Amanda Mortimer's father can be traced back to the founding fathers of the United States. For example, John Jay, an abolitionist pioneer, one of the three signatories of the Treaty of Paris, and the first Chief Justice of the United States, is the ancestor of Amanda Mortimer's father; and her paternal grandmother's side is also a descendant of Robert Livingston, one of the five drafters of the Declaration of Independence, one of the drafters of the Articles of Confederation, and a founding father of the United States.

This one is a real old New York star!
Of course, her orthodox status only means that her family has a glorious past. The one who really gave her power was her father's mother, her grandmother, whose surname was Tilford.

Yes, that's the Tilford family that's in the oil business.

In the last century, the patriarchs of the Tilford family, Henry Tilford and Jabez Bostwick, opened an oil company, which was eventually acquired by John Rockefeller. After the two companies merged, Tilford was not kicked out of the company by John Rockefeller, but led all the new company's business on the West Coast. Later, after Standard Oil was established, he became a director of Standard Oil. Later, after Standard Oil was split, he won Standard Oil of California for his family.

This name may be unfamiliar to many people.

But Ethan was familiar with it.

Because in his memory, in a few years, this company will be renamed...

Chevron.

"Cough cough cough..."

The background sound, which could circle the earth, made Ethan cough continuously.

"Oil?"

He frowned.

"Not only that, they also own the National Gas in New York."

Fred Terman continued to increase his bets.

"..."

This fact made Ethan's eyes go dark.

He just couldn't figure it out!
How could this guy Steve Ross be so good at sucking up to others?

Just after kicking out the biggest undertaker in the United States, you found the daughter of an oil tycoon?
Damn it!
I'm obviously more handsome than him!

"Sxxt!" Ethan cursed.

He felt that things were a bit tricky.

If he was confident that he could defeat Undertaker Ross before, after talking to Spielberg, then now, when this guy has clung to the thigh of the oil tycoon...

This war is troublesome.

The old principal also saw his annoyance, "Do you think Steve Ross is difficult to deal with?"

He looked at Ethan with a smile.

Ethan nodded without hesitation.

“Oil dealers are difficult to deal with.”

"And those who were able to keep their shares from John Rockefeller's attack..."

“It’s more difficult to deal with.”

"Hahahaha——" Ethan's words made Fred Terman laugh.

The old man patted Ethan on the shoulder and said, “Ethan, don’t think so much.”

"You can do whatever you want."

"As long as you don't initiate a fight, there's no problem." "Just like you forced Allen Bradley to pay you this time."

"Just like the last time you made Laurence Rockefeller lay off."

"Both Lawrence and Morgan Stanley called me."

"They complained to me that you had crossed the line."

"But it didn't work."

"As long as you don't play with fire, I can make them not play with fire."

"You know?"

Fred Terman blinked.

Ethan's eyes flickered as he looked into hers.

After a moment, a happy smile appeared on his face.

“I know.”

Since the old principal has made it so clear, Ethan can just go ahead and do it. According to Warner Communications' current needs, he quickly found two sniping ideas.

The first one is related to MGM's acquisition of Columbia.

Since Steve Ross wanted to kick Columbia out of Warner Bros. Burbank Studios, keeping Columbia in as an independent studio would have disrupted his plans.

To do this, they had to stop MGM from acquiring Columbia, and that...

Ethan asked his sister to call Professor Barbara Babcock and ask her to come home.

After waiting for the archmage to come back, Ethan met with her and talked to her about his needs.

Barbara soon understood what he meant.

“You want the Department of Justice to stop MGM from buying Columbia?”

"Yes."

"Why?"

"It's simple. MGM is my enemy."

"Is it because of the Tom and Jerry video game?"

"Well... sort of, but apart from this, we also have conflicts in other areas."

Although Ethan did not reveal the entire case, Barbara had already seen his determination.

"Sure." Barbara thought for a while and said, "This is very easy to do. Just ask the Attorney General to cite Section 7 of the Clayton Act."

"Our country's Department of Justice has the power to prohibit mergers and acquisitions that are likely to substantially reduce competition or tend to form a monopoly. As long as our Department of Justice feels that MGM's acquisition of Columbia Pictures will have a significant impact on the current film market, we can reject their acquisition case."

The clean and neat way of handling it made Ethan laugh.

"Oh Barbara - is this difficult to do?"

"It depends on who needs it." Barbara shrugged and said, "If someone else comes to me, it may be troublesome, but if it's you... I will help you find Jimmy when I get back."

The wizard smiled and said, "I am confident that I can convince him to order the Attorney General to prohibit MGM from acquiring Columbia. But at the same time, you will have to pay a small price."

"What?" Ethan asked curiously.

"Like, maybe donate some money?"

Barbara gave an example, "You should know the Love Canal, right? You can donate some money to the disaster relief committee formed by Jimmy so that Jimmy can provide better assistance to the residents there."

"Is one million enough?" Ethan asked.

"Oh, that's a bit too much." Barbara smiled and shook her head. "Two or three hundred thousand dollars is enough, because what Jimmy wants is help in social trends."

"He is now pursuing an energy company. And wanting these companies to take the initiative to deal with their own pollutants? That's impossible. Therefore, in addition to federal funding, the disaster relief committee cannot raise more funds from the society. After all, once energy companies donate, it means that they understand that they have responsibilities for their own random burial, and this is unacceptable to them."

"Your donation to the disaster relief committee actually means that private companies agree with Jimmy's point of view and want those chemical production companies to take responsibility for pollution control. With this social trend, Jimmy can negotiate with more companies and promote the accountability bill he wants to promote."

"and……"

“The amount of hundreds of thousands of dollars is not obvious either.”

"After the failed acquisition of MGM, they can't even think of you with this small amount of money."

"Oh - then I'll let Evelyn donate -" Barbara's words made Ethan laugh, "But our donation amount is still one million..."

"Because I just want them to know that it was me who prevented them from acquiring the company."

No matter what kind of war it is, you can be as hidden as you want when you attack, but your counterattack must be loud!

Others have already come to your door, and you are still fighting back secretly?
Then even if you win in the end, your enemies won’t be afraid of you!

So, Ethan wanted to let Steve Ross know that he had seen through your plan!

Next, no matter how well you pretend, I will kill you!

"Okay." Since Ethan had made his decision, Barbara stopped trying to persuade him.

After chatting for a while, the great wizard stood up and said goodbye.

With her departure, Ethan also turned his attention to the second idea of ​​sniping Warner.

This idea is related to their main business, because Warner has taken advantage of Ethan's chip defense war to officially announce that it will release its own superhero movie "Superman" during this Christmas.

Although no one knows whether Warner will launch a video game of the same name during the release of "Superman", when MGM achieved success with "Tom and Jerry", Ethan felt that Steve Ross, who owned Atari, would not miss this opportunity.

So...

It becomes inevitable to snipe their projects.

The behavior of Huachang, which sells the works before they are released, is actually the best way to respond!
Unfortunately--

These were impossible to do before logistics were fully developed and the Internet era arrived.

But at the same time--

The original plan of the flower factory holding a press conference at the fruit factory is still feasible in this era.

So, Ethan first went to the R&D department to review the development status of Ms. Pac-Man.

When he found out that Damio Dean had led the company's engineers to reach the number of 213 game levels, and that all tests were expected to be completed by the end of September, and the game would be officially packaged and put into mass production, Ethan knew what he should do.

He is going to release Ms. Pac-Man by Warner Communications at the end of the year!
He wants to destroy Steve Ross's Superman project!
To achieve this...

Then you need to find a helper in the channel.

An assistant who can help him sell video arcade machines directly into theaters.

Because eroding Warner's base will cause more pain to Warner.

Thinking of this, Ethan directly dialed the company's short number and called the bald Steve Ballmer over, "Call Roy Disney."

"tell him."

"I want to see him."

Note: ①Steve Ross's original accumulation depended on marriage. After sucking his father-in-law dry, he decisively changed to a thicker thigh to suck. In reality, he married Amanda Mortimer in 1977 or 1988, and then Warner directly bypassed all competitors and went to build a TV network. They cooperated with American Express to establish Warner American Express Cable. This mixed business behavior was to be investigated at the time, but Amanda Mortimer's background was too big, Warner's competitors did not dare to report it, and the relevant departments pretended not to see it. Steve Ross is the real thigh-hugging king. ②Amanda Mortimer's current name is actually Amanda Burden. She was the director of the New York City Planning Bureau from the 2000s to the 2010s. Now she is the head of the Bloomberg Philanthropies. Bloomberg also clung to her thigh. Her background described in the article is only a small part of the huge network of relationships. Her mother's two sisters married well. One married the eldest son of the Astor family, the son of Astor IV, the richest person who died in the Titanic shipwreck; the other married the eldest son of Emperor Taizu, yes, the eldest son of the fourth great commander-in-chief.

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