Word: gould
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
Frank Ernest Gannett was born on a farm in upstate New York, peddled papers as a boy, worked his way through Cornell by newshawking in his spare time. After graduation he accompanied the first U. S. Commission to the Philippines as secretary to its president, Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, then Cornell's president later Ambassador to Germany. Back in Ithaca, Frank Gannett was by turns city editor, managing editor and business manager of the Daily News and editor of the Cornell Alumni News...
Died. Giovanni Pertinax Morosini, 75, retired banker, eldest son of Banker Giovanni Morosini. aide to Garibaldi, art collector and onetime partner of Jay Gould; of a kidney ailment; in Manhattan. The elder Morosini left a museum-like Victorian mansion and an estate once estimated at $25,000,000 to his children, of whom Victoria married a coachman, Giulia a policeman. Amalia, an invalid since birth, survives...
...Wing's Fort" is a Boston nickname for the bulging limestone edifice of First National Bank. Inside, the building has more the air of a cathedral. Although descended from Puritan stock, Board Chairman Daniel Gould Wing is no Bostonian. He got his start as a messenger boy in Lincoln, Neb. Arriving in Boston as a bank examiner in 1899, he stayed to become president of the Massachusetts National Bank. When that bank merged with First National, he became president, later board chairman. Last week, at 67, Mr. Wing retired because of poor health. Bernard Walton Trafford, vice chairman, stepped...
...essentially 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...