Word: goulding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the late Jay Gould, maker and breaker of railroads, lay dying, his devoted daughter Helen, then 24, was a constant attendant at his bedside. Last week at Roxbury, N. Y., Jay Gould's birthplace, she died, after a stroke, an extraordinary daughter of an extraordinary father, of an extraordinary family...
...first U. S. Gould was Nathan Gold of England. A later Gould was Colonel Abraham, killed in a battle during the Revolution at Ridgefield, Conn. Jay Gould built a railroad empire and fought his battles in Wall Street. In many ways Helen took after her father. He left her $10,000,000 and made her (with three of his sons) a trustee of his $84,000,000 estate. She ran up her $10,000,000 to an estimated $30,000,000. She invested in traction properties and made an annual tour of 7,000 miles to inspect them. A strange...
...Hoover, the miner, was resurrected by a C. I. O. strike at the New Idria quicksilver mine near Hollister, Calif. (100 miles south of San Francisco). New Idria Mining Co. was organized in 1936 by Brother Theodore Hoover, who is president of the company. Engineer Henry W. Gould, vice president and general manager, and State Senator Sanborn Young, a leading sponsor of the antilabor proposal which referending California voters turned down last month. Because war in Spain has curtailed output from the biggest sources of quicksilver. New Idria's business has picked up lately. The mine produces one-third...
...time during the game did Andover threaten the Crimson goal line. Only in the final quarter did the losers manage to pile up an appreciable number of first downs, when Maury Gould, Blue halfback, rifled several passes to his teammates for short gains...
Andover gave the Yardlings some good practice on pass defense in the last period when Maury Gould opened up with some bullet passes. The Blue clicked regularly on these aerials, but the receivers were downed in their tracks for short gains for the most part. Harvard ended the Blue's offensive when a long lateral was intercepted at midfield...