Word: jay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industry is generally admitted to be necessary if financial tangles are to be avoided in the future. The national economy is now mature and developed to the point where control would not mean constriction. At the same time there is ever increasing need to end the operation--of the Jay Goulds and promoters of the present who make a good thing of tinkering with American industrial and financial machinery...
...Portland, Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley, regarded as a personal representative of the President, was booed as he walked to the convention platform. He was seated as an Oklahoma delegate, thus being apparently obliged to join in voting for immediate payment of the cash Bonus. (The Oklahoma delegation was also pledged to vote for repeal of the 18th Amendment.) After a safe & sound speech on armament, Secretary Hurley was let off the platform with more cheers than boos...
What Japan would say should Patrick Jay Hurley write such an article for the Army & Navy Journal, U. S. citizens could only guess. Uchida. Count Yasuya Uchida, the man who kept all this boiling by his historic "fissiparous" speech in the Diet, is a gracious, grey-haired gentleman of 67 who dresses exquisitely, is very fond of a cup of hot sake (rice whisky), has a fine collection of Chinese silk paintings and likes to sing old Japanese utai (folk ballads) in the garden of his home with a group of cronies. Only to patriotic Chinese do his black-socked...
Shortly after he lost his fortune in the Black Friday panic brought on by Jay Gould's gold corner in 1869, the late Berlin-born Albert Frank, then a banker, happened to suggest to a steamship line that it advertise its transatlantic service. Because the advertising drew passengers, he suggested to his banker friends that they advertise their services, helped them write their copy. Because the copy brought customers, Albert Frank founded in 1872, one of the first financial advertising agencies in Wall Street. Successfully fighting the prejudice of the times against advertising by bankers & brokers (it was thought...
...Sprague, 75, "father of the trolley car." Celebration: a tribute meeting at the Engineering Societies Building, Manhattan, with hundreds of celebrities present. An Annapolis graduate, Scientist Sprague specialized in electricity, was for a year affiliated with Thomas Alva Edison. He organized Sprague Electric Railway & Motor Co., tried to get Jay Gould to electrify Manhattan's steam-powered elevated lines. During a demonstration, a fuse blew out, scared Financier Gould out of all interest in electric cars. Later in Richmond, Va., Mr. Sprague successfully constructed an electric surface line. Within two years 200 other U. S. cities had trolley lines...