The Champagne King, another name for the Robber Baron millionaire, Mr. George Kessler, brought two million dollars in cash aboard the Lusitania on her last voyage. He was demonstrating how little he cared for Kaiser Wilhelm's threats about sinking the Lusitania with all the American neutrals aboard. He was thumbing his nose in the Kaiser's face. Still he lost the wager and the two million in cash when the ship sank in only 18 minutes on May 7, 1915. Kessler survived to team up with Helen Keller to start Helen Keller International for soldiers and sailors blinded by the Great War and all wars after that.