THE ORDER OF MAMMON NEWSLETTER
Tracking the Nation's Highest Honor
&
The Entrepeneurs in the Running For It

Some tidbits for newcomers to the newsletter. The Order of Mammon Medal has been awarded for over 100 years to the entrepeneur who pulls off the most electrifying and rewarding financial acrobatics without thought of using a bottom line.. The proceedings, who voted and even the winner have been super secret most of the way. I like to think my investigations have had something to do with flushing it out, but to be honest they probably just thought the time had come for the unabashed worship of mammon, the long time unofficial religion of the country. Here is what all the fuss is about.

Rumor has it this entrepeneurial honor was started by the Jeckyll Island crowd to thumb its nose at TR for all his trust busting antics. Now the crowd owns its own continent somewhere.

WR Hearst won for promoting several wars. Boy how times have changed. Today that wouldn't even rank him as a darkhorse.

Al Jolson sang at the fourth award ceremony crooning - "Mammon, Mammon, How I Love Ya, How I Love Ya, My Dear Old Mammon".

The medal itself has only been redesigned once. Apparently they hired some Russian who designed the Order of Lenin promising him citizenship and a chicken franchise.