Word: dan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dartmouth this week will add another chapter in the story of the 1935 booting machine, so far unbeaten. Perhaps Floyd Haskell, who filled in at halfback for Dan Purdue on Saturday, can release Frank Vincent into the forward line. Perhaps Syd Dawson will perfect that corner kick which led to the first goal against Army. Perhaps the Motley brothers will learn to meet the ball on the nose every time when in scoring position...
...four unsavory titans of 19th Century Wall Street, by far the meanest and most rascally was Daniel Drew (1797-1879), who was now with, now against rough "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, flamboyant James Fisk, piratical Jay Gould. Born on a farm near Carmel, N. Y., Dan Drew enlisted in the War of 1812, became a cattle drover, later a cattle trader. Sharp-witted, grasping, unscrupulous, he was credited with inventing the "watering" of stock. This trick to up the weight of cattle just before a sale consisted of feeding the animals salt and then giving them all the water they could...
...Manhattan, entered the steamboat business first in competition, later in partnership with Yanderbilt. Drew it was who put the Commodore into railroads. In 1853 began Drew's association with the Erie Railroad which culminated in the scandalous "Erie War" of 1866-68. Allied with Gould and Fisk, Dan Drew dumped "watered" Erie stock on the market, sheared Vanderbilt of millions while selling Erie short. When their arrest was ordered. Drew, Gould and Fisk took $6,000,000 in greenbacks, retreated to a fortified Jersey City hotel. While the Press gasped at such, blatant rascality, the three used their vast...
...scoundrel, Dan Drew was finally cornered in 1870, by Gould and Fisk who caused an unexpected rise in Erie shares. Drew's fall thereafter was rapid. In 1876 he was bankrupt, his liabilities exceeding $1,000,000. Old, ignorant and despised, Daniel Drew spent his last years dependent on his son. But he had one consolation-religion. He was a pious Methodist whom Wall Street called "Deacon Dan." In the days of his wealth he endowed Drew Theological Seminary (now University) at Madison, N. J. He also contributed heavily to a young ladies' seminary and three churches near...
Callaway appeared in court along with Frederick R. Mosely '36, Winfield A. Huppuck, 2L, apprehender of the thief, and Dan Rooney, janitor at 52 Mt. Auburn...