Word: jay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month when the motion of a Sinclair triumph was pervading the final hearings on the plan, Harry Sinclair made one of his stage gestures. In court rose his attorney, onetime Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley, to say that since some of the creditors appeared to think that Mr. Sinclair wanted to dominate the new company, Mr. Sinclair was willing to withdraw from rehabilitated Richfield's board of directors. Expostulating gently, the re-organization committee hastened to assure Mr. Hurley that it very much wanted Mr. Sinclair on the board. Other board members will be President...
...JAY COOKE-Henrietta M. Larson- Harvard University Press...
...early days of the Civil War, when Jay Cooke was a pious, 40-year-old, moderately successful Philadelphia banker, he wrote a frantic appeal to his brother in Columbus, Ohio: "I see Chase is in the Treasy, & now what is to be done-can't you . . . open a Banking house in Washn & be something respectable-or at least can't you inaugurate something whereby we can all safely make some Cash?" Unaware at that point were the Cooke brothers that they were about to become the greatest bankers in the country, to finance the greatest industrial enterprise...
...Manhattan. There a committee representing six different denominations unanimously agreed that Dr. Ironside's treatise was the best of 29 submitted by U. S. ministers and professors in competition for a $1,000 prize offered by Mrs. Finley Johnson Shepard, great & meritorious daughter of the late & notorious Jay Gould...
...Next thing the trade knew, Rube Goldberg was working up a new feature whose principal character, a fat female clown, was christened Lala Palooza after consultation with Yale's Pundit William Lyon Phelps. By last week, with 75 papers signed up* by a new syndicate headed by Frank Jay Markey, it was evident that editors expected from the new Goldbergian feature the old Goldbergian...