Word: gould
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor Ralph Owen Brewster (1925-29). No good friends are ex-Governors Brewster and Baxter. More than once has Baxter accused Brewster of being a Ku Kluxer. More than once has Brewster implied that Baxter is dull if not dreadful. Each hopes to succeed Maine's Senator Arthur Robinson Gould in next year's election. These two sunk their teeth into the power export bill and pulled in opposite directions. Last week Maine defeated power export by a majority of some 10,000 votes in 125,000 cast...
...southern hemisphere spring approached. Commander Byrd hoisted the U. S. flag?also British and Norwegian flags?for the first time since April and said: "This is a big day for us, because of the return of the sun, and a bigger day because it is Larry's [Laurence McKinley Gould, second-in-command] birthday." Wrote Russell Owens, official correspondent (New York Times]: "The ice cliffs sparkled like gigantic mirrors winking back a message of welcome to the sun as if there was some secret understanding between them and they were amused at our boisterous happiness...
...Ambassador to Germany Jacob Gould Schurman perspiring diplomatically in a hot coat while the rest of the gallery sat comfortably in shirtsleeves. . . . Dr. Daniel Prenn stopping in the middle of his match with Francis T. Hunter to chase away an annoying yellow butterfly. . . . Hunter gleefully flinging his racket across the courts after he took the final game from Dr. Prenn. . . . Hans Moldenhauer politely catching William Tatem Tilden's serve in his hand after an erring referee had called "out" to the previous Tilden service. . . . Patriotic Germans groaning loudly while Doubles-Partners Wilmer Allison and John Van Ryn raced through...
Married. George Munro Schurman, 37, son of U. S. Ambassador to Germany Jacob Gould Schurman; to Miss Kerstin H. Taube, 36, of Manhattan, interior decorator, daughter of late Count Henning Gustav Taube; in Chappaqua...
...Erie (third oldest U. S. road, founded 1832) showed fair progress up to and through the Civil War, then passed into the hands of Jay Gould, Jim Fiske and Daniel Drew. There followed a long series of unprofitable years, during which the Erie was an "orphan" road, no one interest controlling it. In 1924 the Van Sweringens secured control, and the Erie soon began to show a profit instead of 3 loss. Erie's 1927 net income was $3,512,650; its 1928 income was $10,002,883. For the first quarter of 1929 it showed...