Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hines, taciturn and parsimonious, mother of eleven, had small faith in her husband's and son's management of money. They gave her all proceeds from the smithy except what they needed for personal expenses. She also had small faith in banks. This, says Jimmy Hines, explains why he had no bank account after 1908, why he carried large sums of cash. After he married in 1904 his wife bore him three sons and took care of most of his finances...
Steuer got back some of his money, but lent Mrs. Hines some more and is now owed...
Where did the money come from? Mrs. Hines paid Jimmy's gambling losses with her checks, but he collected and kept his winnings in cash. The Hines family formed two office equipment and furniture companies to sell goods to the city for new buildings in 1935-37. One made $69,000 for the family, the other about $42,000. The District Attorney said that in 1928 Hines got $7,500 from a man & woman sentenced to prison in a "numbers" racket case. Their sentences were reduced. He acted as intermediary with the Tenement House Commission for several Bronx property...
Julien Poydras, son of poor peasants at Nantes in France, loved a peasant girl. She had no dot, he had no money, and her parents took the French view of love without francs. Deprived of his intended, young Julien in 1768 took his heart to America, in Louisiana rose from peddler to owner of many acres and slaves. When he died, rich and unwed, in 1824, he bequeathed to the neighboring parishes of Pointe Coupée and West Baton Rouge $30,000 each, ". . . the interest ... to be employed in giving a dowry to all girls of the said parish...
Pointe Coupée eventually diverted its inheritance to building a school, but except in the Civil War years, West Baton Rouge annually had distributed the interest on Julien Poydras' money to dark, full-breasted Creole brides. Of the $2,400 or so paid each year, the poorest brides get the most. Just how much each receives is the secret of the three commissioners who administer the fund. Otherwise, jealousies might cloud the fame of Julien Poydras...