Word: golds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifty men will make the trip. An advance agent will travel a day ahead of the main group to make all last minute arrangements and preparations. Two special Pullman cars will be used throughout the whole trip. At most of the dances, the Gold Coast Orchestra will supply the music...
Edward L. Doheny, 70, is an opportunist and a pioneer. Born in Wisconsin he hunted gold in California. He found some, but at 36 he found himself nearly penniless in Los Angeles. So he discovered oil near that city, rose again and fell again financially. Then he got himself a horse and set out to explore Mexico. Rich oil fields met his eye; he organized the Mexican Petroleum Co. Now, he has accumulated a fortune of some $100,000,000. Perhaps, he regards his Elk Hills leases as Doheny was a bribe, or at least just another successful...
...Loucheur and his friends have the money and the power to realize their ideal. But will they? Can they resist the pressure of Anglo-Saxon gold upon their vacuum? Probably they cannot. Thrifty, as are nearly all Frenchmen, they are already rumored to entertain the possibility of selling to three non-Latins a third each of one of their hundred acres for a sum sufficiently stupendous to pay the expenses of developing the other...
...that as it may have been, there was much else for the Pope to talk over with Guglielmo Marconi. The Pope, besides having been a hardy mountaineer, is a radio enthusiast. As he awaited .the inventor's approach, as he fingered the gold medal he was about to bestow, the Pope may have reflected momentarily upon just a few of the week's news items, indicative of the vast sphere which this intense, blue-eyed, light-haired Italo-Hibernian set in motion as a youth only 30 years ago. The Pope may have realized...
...beermaker and Lillie Eberhard Anheuser Busch had been married 50 years, and they had to celebrate. First, 5,000 employes of the Anheuser-Busch breweries were given the day off, and gifts of $5,000 each went to various German-American charities. Adolphus gave his Lillie a crown of gold, studded with pearls and diamonds. William Howard Taft, then President, sent gifts. So did his predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt; and the then Kaiser Wilhelm der Zweite, particular friend of the St. Louis brew master. Everyone sent gifts, $500,000 worth, flowers, $50,000 worth. Adolphus Busch could think only in multiples...