Word: goulding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since a wild Friday in September 1869 when Jay Gould's attempt to corner the LT. S. market ran the price up to $162 and left behind a trail of ruin and corruption has gold been an active speculative medium in the U. S. Desultory trading continued to 1879 when gold payments were resumed. But from then until last April with the U. S. Government firmly tied to gold there was no incentive to speculate. With the U. S. now off the gold standard, gold miners, lacking a free supply & demand market and confronted with rising costs, are still...
...announced a plan to form an island colony "as a refuge from high French prices and the depreciated dollar." Socialite colonists would purchase all their necessary luxuries on a co-operative basis. Reported ready to join the colony were Mme Jacques Balsan, the onetime Consuelo Vanderbilt, and Frank Jay Gould, who was forced last year to rent his famed Riviera casinos to a French syndicate at a reputed loss...
...John Gould Fletcher, poet (The Tree...
...university building in Heidelberg there is (or was) a tablet bearing the names of the men who, at the suggestion of Jacob Gould Schurman, provided the money for the building. The names are: Jules S. Bache, George F. Baker, William Gerard Beckers, James Brown, Walter P. Chrysler, Clarence L. Dillon, Julius Forstmann, William Fox, Henry Goldman, W. A. Harriman, Harris Forbes & Co., Henry Heide, George D. Horst, Henry Janssen, Robert Lehman, Nicholas M. Schenck, W. J. (or I; the German capitals are alike) Norton, Gustav Oberlaender, James R. Perkins, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Julius Rosenwald, Samuel Sachs, Mortimer L. Schiff...
Heidelberg's "University Hall," classroom building, was built by former U. S. students at the University, dedicated by onetime U. S. Ambassador Jacob Gould Schurman in 1931. Its tablet, containing many a Jewish name, still stands. Moreover, foreign students, even Jewish ones, are still admissible at Heidelberg since they "cannot enter the German labor market...