Word: goulds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Where was Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman when his daughter met her fianc?...
...necessary that two national conventions approve. In 1920 at Cleveland it was first proposed. Mrs. Finley Shepard (Helen Gould) resigned as president as a result of the discord. In 1922 at Hot Springs. Ark., it was rejected. In 1924 at Manhattan delegates approved this pledge: "I desire to enter the Christian fellowship of the association. I will loyally endeavor to uphold the purpose in my own life and through my membership in the association." Last week reactionaries offered as an amendment: "I accept Jesus Christ, as my Savior and Lord, and pledge myself to endeavor to carry out the purpose...
...known to control the Delaware & Hudson with its 30-odd affiliated companies in the East. In the Middle West he was chairman of the Kansas City Southern, boss of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (the "Katy") and of the St. Louis Southwestern (the "Cotton Belt"). Of the latter road Edwin Gould was nominally chairman, the last of the Goulds to hold such a position...
...closer scrutiny revealed that Mr. Gould was not dead. Far from it. He had merely defaulted his U. S. and international court tennis titles to Charles Suydam Cutting* because, as the result of a bad attack of influenza, his muscles were so stiff that he could not play in the challenge round of the national court tennis tournament at the Racquet & Tennis club. The funereal tone of the newspaper notices merely emphasized a statement made by a wise man that "athletes die twice?once when Death takes them and once when they retire from sport...
...Gould won the national court tennis championship from Charles E. Sand. He became the sporting sensation of the decade. He went abroad to get a match with Eustace H. Mills, champion of England, who did not want to play him at all, for he had heard the laconic comment of Major Cooper Key that "America has put the brains of a veteran into a youth of 17." Public sentiment forced Mills into the match and he won. Jay Gould returned to the U. S., entered Columbia, was elected captain of the freshman track team, led his class to triumph over...