CONSORTIUM NEWS – Samuel Bush took over from Frank Rockefeller as president of the company in 1908, and held that job for the next 20 years. . . Samuel Bush’s Buckeye Steel made the gun barrels for Remington. . . During World War I, Remington supplied 67 percent of all the weapons and ammunition used by the Allied forces.

Samuel’s son, Prescott Bush, served as an artillery liaison officer with the French forces during the war and wrote back home about his heroic exploits in letters that were published. But the exploits proved to be fabricated, forcing Prescott to apologize. But that didn’t deter him – or dim his career prospects. . .1918; Prescott Bush Sr., leads a raid on a Indian tomb to secure Geronimo’s skull for Skull & Bones.
“In God We Trust!” Mazel Tov!