Word: jay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Drew was soon joined on the Erie board by Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, a slippery pair of Civil War profiteers and stock-market riggers. In 1866, the trio tangled with Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, who wanted to get control of the Erie because it competed with his New York Central, then pushing westward to Chicago. When Vanderbilt tried to buy up every Erie share on the market, the supply suddenly became endless. Reason: Jim Fisk had set up a press to turn out fake stock certificates. Vowed Fisk: "If this printing press don't break down...
...cash out of the Erie treasury, scuttled across the Hudson to Jersey City. To keep Vanderbilt at bay, Fisk mounted three 12-lb. cannon on the docks outside the Erie's transplanted headquarters, donned an admiral's uniform to stage-dress his defiance. Meanwhile, foxy Jay Gould bribed the New York state legislature with $1,000,000 to legalize the fraudulent stock certificates...
...movie surrounds Hope with a whole gallery of Runyon types sporting names like Gloomy Willie (William Frawley) and Straight Flush (Jay C. Flippen). Jane Darwell plays an authentic old doll named Nellie Thursday, and Marilyn Maxwell supplies songs and cheesecake as a showgirl reluctantly in thrall to the Lemon Drop Kid. They treat their problems with deadpan earnestness, as Runyon intended them to, and beneath each sharp lapel and checkered vest beats a heart of gold...
Fred Coburn, Jay Byrne, and Bill Spence are all hard-hitters and capable defensive players, while Ed Maroni is an experienced alternate. The brightness of the defense picture is indicated by the fact that even Turk Broder, '53's best defenseman, will not make the trip...
Last week the Cadillac and the Chevrolet of the furniture business got together. For $3,500,000, said International's Top Man Jay Levine, he and associates had bought the inventory and physical assets of the Karpen Co. Levine, who bought control of International only last fall, does not plan to lie back on his chaise longue now. Said he: "If I have anything to do with it, we'll be the biggest thing in the furniture business within a few years. We're out to expand...