Word: goulds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Howard de Talleyrand, Prince de Sagan, 19, of Paris, son of Duchess de Talleyrand (Anna Gould); in Paris; of pleural complications after shooting himself because his parents refused to let him marry until he became of age (TIME, June...
...railroad. He didn't like (he said) the way the Pittsburgh & Virginia was run (it had gone through several receiverships), so be bought it. Later he acquired large holdings in Wheeling & Lake Erie and has since been attempting to put together the lake-to-sea system which George Gould had begun...
Such has been the history of many a U. S. scandal. But such was not the case last month when 19-year-old Howard, Prince of Sagan, son of the Duchess de Talleyrand, who was Anna, the daughter of the late wealthy Jay Gould, shot himself on purpose in his mother's Paris home. The press did not get wind of the story until last week. When the press came, the Duchess was ready with a frank, detailed and-most important of all-entirely literate statement; one that prevented garbling by scandal-monging journals. The statement said: "The Duke...
Died. William Durland, 81, oldtime Manhattan riding master, in Manhattan. On his horses had ridden many a U. S. President, many a Vanderbilt, Gould, Belmont, Ryan. In a lawsuit, Mr. Durland was once voluntarily defended by the late Senator Roscoe Conkling of New York and the late Robert Green ("Fighting Bob") Ingersoll, famed agnostic. "When that pair got through talking," said Mr. Durland, "the judge just took it away from the jury and dismissed the complaint...
...days later the U. S. Ambassador at Berlin, dignified, popular Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, sat discreetly silent at a banquet while famed German Foreign Minister and Peace Prizer Dr. Gustav Stresemann flayed the Hoover-Gibson attitude by implication thus...