Word: fisk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...settled in 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...
...past 16 years and is at present field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, will speak for the affirmative. Mr. Pickens received a Phi Beta Kappa key from Yale, and has since acquired the degrees of Doctor of Literature and Doctor of Laws from Fisk University and Wiley University. He was dean of Morgan College in Baltimore for five years, resigning in 1920 to work with the N.A.A.C.P. He is the author of five books, most of them dealing with the current problems of the Nogro...
...honest man who labored in terrible agony to pay his personal debts. Grant became identified with the most scandalous corruption that ever touched a President. His administrations are remembered less for their legislative measures than for the magnitude of their swindles. President Grant was publicly entertained by Gould and Fisk just before those crafty scoundrels tried to corner the country's gold supply. His confidential secretary took bribes from the Whiskey Ring. Even though he was not directly involved in the Credit Mobilier exposure, it placed him under popular suspicion. "The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant...
...Author, now 67, published his first book, The Suppression of the Slave Trade, almost 40 years ago, considers it "not entirely unreadable" today. Of mixed Dutch, French and African blood, Author Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Mass., educated at Fisk University, Harvard and the University of Berlin, has taught school and served for 14 years as professor of economics and history at Atlanta University. Famed among Negroes as editor of The Crisis, which he founded in 1910, Author Du Bois became widely known beyond intellectual circles of his own race as an executive officer of the National Association...