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In the early 1900s, a founding partner of which Wall Street law firm was hired by French investors desperate to recoup their losses on a failed canal project and ran one of the most audacious lobbying campaigns in American history, steering the U.S. government to route its canal through Panama instead of Nicaragua, helping to bankroll and orchestrate a revolution that split Panama off from Colombia, and collecting an $800,000 fee for his trouble?
Hint: Part of the campaign involved mailing U.S. senators Nicaraguan postage stamps depicting an erupting volcano, to scare them off that route for the canal.
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