Word: gould
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sage. To Cornell Willard Fiske gave books, money, a building for a splendid library. Cornell teams were invincible. Year after year Cornell crews swept the river at Poughkeepsie. Then it was no slur to be called "Cornell of the West." Into the 20th Century, under able president Jacob Gould Schurman, Cornell vigor continued unabated, Cornell reputation high...
This and the increased taxes of all sorts provided in Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden's Budget (TIME, April 21), stirred to wrath and protest the Englishman who married Miss Helen Vivien Gould (daughter of Jay) and her millions: John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, fifth Baron Decies, D. S. O., lately of the 7th Hussars, onetime Chief Press Censor for Ireland...
Died. William P. Gould Harding, 65, onetime (1916) Governor of the Federal Reserve Board; of heart disease; in Boston...
Already in second place with 8,682 contributing alumni, the campaign began with a big alumni dinner in Manhattan from which, as in the Yale drive, speeches were broadcast over a network of 19 stations. The speakers: President Livingston Farrand; onetime (1892-1920) President Jacob Gould Schurman, retired U. S. Ambassador to Germany; Myron Charles Taylor (Cornell, 1894), Chairman of the Finance Committee of U. S. Steel Corp., who recently gave $1,500,000 for a new Cornell Law School. With 41,000 living alumni (5,000 more than Yale), Cornellians felt confident of "a rather unique intercollegiate championship...
...part of the first transcontinental road would be a fitting destiny for MOP. Started in 1851, the first railroad west of the Mississippi, it was acquired in 1879 by Jay Gould as a hub for his proposed transcontinental system. But the road became dilapidated, has only been built up since 1923 when Lewis Warrington Baldwin became its president. Now MOP operates 1,.500 miles of track, claims to be the longest system in the U. S. Long considered MOP's bankers are Kuhn. Loeb & Co. and it is believed they will remain so although J. P. Morgan...