Word: jay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Washington's Boiling Field last week soared a big Army plane carrying Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley on the first leg of his journey to the Philippines. The same day on the other side of the globe Missouri's Senator Harry Bartow ("Beets") Hawes sailed from Manila for the U. S. via China. During his six-week visit to the islands Senator Hawes had united a great mass of Filipinos for immediate independence, whipped their enthusiasm for freedom to the highest pitch in years. It was now Secretary Hurley's mission to find deft ways...
...until by the end of the month the 1,000-odd inhabitants of the Erie's New York office will all be installed in Cleveland. Wall Street oldsters recalled that the last time the Erie moved was in 1868 -a highly immoral escapade across the Hudson with Messrs. Jay Gould, Jim Fisk and "Uncle Dan'l" Drew, three most disreputable characters. Commodore Vanderbilt's legal maneuvers had made it too hot for Gould's company in New York, so they packed up the Erie books, boarded a ferry, set up the road's offices...
Died. John Jay Curtis, 74, president and co-founder of Publishers Bobbs-Merrill & Co.; of pneumonia; in Indianapolis, Ind. Bobbs-Merrill published first the writings of Poet James Whitcomb Riley; second, Charles Major's novel When Knighthood Was in Flower. Publisher Curtis invented colored book jackets...
John Mortimer Schiff, 26, partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co., succeeded his father, the late Mortimer Leo Schiff, as a director and member of the executive committee of Western Union Telegraph Co. Director Jay Cooke was also added to the executive committee...
From a certain common kind of Brittany seaweed, Frank Jay Gould an nounced that he soon expected to be able to extract gold...