Word: gould
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...creature must have floundered up the stream which connects Loch Ness with the North Sea, since obviously it could not have surmounted the locks in the Caledonian Canal which leads from the lake to the Atlantic. Englishmen began to take the monster seriously when Lieut. -Commander R. T. Gould, R. N. retired, author of The Case for the Sea Serpent, collected 51 eye witness accounts and drawings, which he duly detailed in the London Times. It was about 50 ft. long, he had concluded, and not more than five feet thick, with long, tapering neck and tail, a button head...
Roosevelt & Son financed Cyrus Field's first transatlantic cable, floated James J. Hill's first railroad bonds and gained the undying enmity of Jay Gould for refusing to play his slippery games. In late years the firm has practically withdrawn from the underwriting field to specialize as a dealer in railroad and municipal issues. But what lifted Roosevelt & Son above the run-of-the-mill Wall Street houses was its unbiased investment counsel. Its clientele consisted largely of institutions, wealthy individuals and estates which turned over their portfolios to Roosevelt management. And Roosevelt management was good...
...Vanderbilts and the Astors vie in roccoco obscenity. Valeska Surrat displays the hour-glass silhouette which won her recognition as the Gibson girl and the enjoyment of generations to come. There is the Klondike, there are Carry Nation, Eugene Sandow, "bathing" suits, Floradora girls, Henry Ford, Jay Gould and a myriad more...
Nice police changed their minds last week about the fire which gutted Europe's largest gambling haven, Frank J. Gould's $6,200,000 Palais de la Méditerranée (TIME, Dec. 4). Though two Palais employes were originally charged with arson, the fire, police decided after all, was due to "carelessness." Not without brisk haggling the French syndicate which leased the casino from Mr. Gould and had insured itself against loss of profit resulting from such events as an act of God, settled with the 20 French and 20 British companies which wrote the insurance...
Year ago the Palais was leased to a French syndicate for 2,000,000 francs while Mr. Gould retired to his French estate at Maisons-Laffitte (TIME, Dec. 5, 1932). The syndicate was behind on gambling taxes due the state one day last week, but insisted that they would open the Palais for the season next evening. Just after noon flames burst from the restaurant, the theatre, the baccarat room and swept in a crackling torrent through the whole Palais...