Word: goulds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jacob Gould Schurman called at the White House to say good-by before sailing again for the American Embassy at Peking...
...Manhattan, "the most expensive private litigation ever known" continued in its eighth year. Referee James A. O'Gorman sat four hours daily listening to depositions in the tangle of suits and counter suits that stand between the seven heirs of the late Jay Gould...
Lawyer William Wallace, counsel for the estate of the late George Gould, arose to protest a duplication of documentary evidence; stated that the case was costing the Goulds $2,500 an hour...
...late Jay Gould . . . succeeded in getting together and holding money . . . at the rate of $2,500,000 annually, which amounts to $285 an hour. His children and their children . . . are disbursing it nine times as fast as he made...
...Missouri Pacific years ago was a "Gould road," and a link in the ambitious transcontinental railway system from the Atlantic to the Pacific which both Jay and George Gould projected. When, after 1907, this plan collapsed, "Mop" fell upon some lean years. Now the great southwestern merger, which it heads, promises to realize partially, yet in fact, the dreams which the Goulds had of its future...