Word: goulding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Samuel Genis did not get Stutz stock for investment. He optioned it together with an additional block to a slick group of Chicago promoters now known as John J. Burke & Co. Burke in turn optioned the stock to other stock-jobbers variously doing business as Gould & Co., Kopald, Quinn & Co. and Kenyon & Co. (McCormick & Co. until SEC cracked down on them once before). These retail firms proceeded to sell Stutz stock to citizens of the Midwest on an installment plan, 50? on the dollar down. Meantime John J. Burke & Co. strong-armed Stutz stock in the open market from about...
...young widow when Edith Gould introduced her to Harry Symes Lehr, Elizabeth Drexel was amused and entertained by him, found him tactful, with a flair for drawing out unsuspected talents, with an al- most feminine desire to please and say the right thing. Penniless, Lehr was a "little brother of the rich," hobnobbed with Wanamakers, Goulds, Fishes, Astors, Oelrichs. Born in Baltimore, son of a once-wealthy importer, he consciously made entertaining rich people his career. Tom Wanamaker was glad to let him occupy his apartment. Wetzel made his clothes free. Kaskel & Kaskel gave him the latest designs in shirts...
...four brothers had witnessed his victory. His wife, onetime telephone operator and mother of three, stayed fearfully at home, listening to the radio account of the fight. Champion Braddock dashed off to a Manhattan hotel to meet her, plan what to do with his $31,000 purse. Little Joe Gould. Braddock's manager, fairly beside himself with happy amazement, squealed: "What'd I tell you mugs? Jim would win! That's it! I have no plans. Hell, I'm gonna be drunk for a week! Maybe longer...
...testy irishman entered the telegraph & cable field solely to annoy Jay Gould, who had characteristically crossed him in a business deal. Allied with the equally testy Publisher James Gordon Bennett, who shared his animosity for the sly manipulator of Erie-R. R., John Mackay strenuously laid cables and strung wires to compete with Western Union, then a Gould favorite. The ensuing rate wars were scandalous, but at the founder's death in 1902 the Mackay companies were still a worthy heritage...
...little joe gould has lost his teeth and doesn't know where to find them...