Word: goulding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adopted a report of the Privileges and Elections Committee exonerating Senator Arthur R. Gould of Maine of bribery charges...
...Senate- ¶ Passed, 47 to 39, the McNary-Haugen bill, creating a Federal Farm Board equipped with $250,000,000 to buy up surplus crops (TIME, Feb. 14). Only one New England Senator, Arthur R. Gould of Maine, voted for the bill. Hostile Senators vainly denounced the McNary-Haugen experiment as unconstitutional, price-fixing, bloc legislation. (Bill went to the House, where passage seemed certain...
Died. James Kidd Flemming, M. P., 58, onetime Premier of New Brunswick (1911-16); after a short illness, at Woodstock, N. B. Senator Arthur R. Gould of Maine has been accused of "bribery," because he and his associates paid $100,000 to Premier Flemming in a railway negotiation...
...Kuhn, Loeb & Co. with Mr. Loree and his aims. Because Mr. Loree is the railroad adviser to Mrs. Edward H. Harriman, widow of the man who organized the Union Pacific and the Illinois Central as most potent roads, such relations are important for a transcontinental trunk system. George Jay Gould tried this at one time. But the panic of 1907 wrecked him financially, destroyed his aims...
...they had become prosperous commission men. They realized better than most men that the Civil War meant a change to U. S. civilization, that the railroads ?then grimy, haphazard affairs, spattered with tobacco juice?would become a great factor in that civilization. They went to Manhattan where Jay Gould (1836-92), James Fisk (1834-72) and Daniel Drew (1797-1879) were forcing from Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) control of the Erie, and where Commodore Vanderbilt himself was forcing his way to the control of the New York Central. When the Fisk-Gould machinations around President Grant brought...