Word: gould
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James Abbott McNeil Whistler, the most distinguished painter America has produced, will take his place in a group of memorials to American artists by American sculptors in the Gould Library of New York University. This collection has no relation to the Hall of Fame nearby, but has been instituted by a group of artists to give honor to their own colleagues, some of whom will probably never get into the respectable colonnades of the "Charnel House of Fame," as Father Tabb called it in indignation against Poe's exclusion till...
...foreign prisoners held by bandits after the train hold-up near Tsinan, capital of Shantung province, in May. The prime factors in this plan are that for the first three days of imprisonment foreigners should receive $500 a day and for each subsequent day $100. Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, U. S. Minister to China, has, it is understood, been instrumental in curbing the financial appetites of his colleagues who favored much larger compensation. An agreement is expected between the members of the Diplomatic Corps and the Peking Government...
Edith Kelley Gould, dancer, will soon appear in a Paris music hall on a twelve weeks' contract. She married Frank J. Gould when playing in In Havana in 1910, was divorced...
...Diplomatic Corps in Peking did some plain speaking to the Government. Individual members of the Cabinet took it upon themselves to please the diplomats by attempting to free the foreign captives. Each had a different plan. The result was that the Cabinet split. Even the brusque message from Jacob Gould Schurman, United States Minister, to get on with the business of freeing prisoners and cease haggling, only served to widen the breaches in the Cabinet...
...through the notorious South Improvement Co., a concern organ-ized by Rockefeller, which bought a charter with the right to carry on any kind of business in any country and in any way. The rebates were secured by arrangements with Vanderbilt and Clark of the New York Central, Jay Gould and General McClellan of the Erie, and Thompson and Scott of the Pennsylvania...