Word: poe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hubard had painted gloomy but perfectly proper portraits of Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay and Richmond belles for a living; evenings he turned his hand to what he called "Gothick" fantasies. A few, like his Silent Violinist (see cut), were weird enough to recall his melancholy contemporary, Edgar Allan Poe...
After Franklin, American culture fell back, except for Whitman and Poe, while the Americans invaded the west. Right now Americans are trying culture once more. American music, buildings and books lack the refinement of older civilizations, but it is because the people are immature and it is impossible to demand intellectual penetration as yet. We are older than the North Americans, much older. . . . [But] culture comes after wealth. . . . Although there is no Goethe, no Shakespeare, no Kant, no Velasquez on the American scene, thousands of people are working hard, trying...
Baltimoreans, observing their city's 150th anniversary, nominated their greatest citizen. The late Financier-Philanthropist Johns Hopkins won first place, the late Cardinal Gibbons second, Edgar Allan Poe, third. Way down the list, but on it with 21 votes: the Duchess of Windsor...
Gleam. Texas Eastern had begun as a gleam in the eyes of E. Holley Poe, an Oklahoma-born gas consultant; Everette Lee De Golyer, Texas' famed oil geologist ; Charles I. Francis, a Houston lawyer, and Houston's shipyard-building brothers, George and Herman Brown (TIME, Feb. 24). They advanced some $250,000 (later repaid by the company) in the early stages of engineering, planning and bidding. When down payments totaling $5,100,000 had to be made to the War Assets Administration, Dillon, Read's help was sought. Dillon, Read & Co., with the Browns, et al, lent...
...paper profits on their initial investment for stock of $42,750. They would net another $500,000 or so in profits, at cost plus, in constructing 21 compressor stations along the Inches. Geologist De Golyer's paper net was $1,000,000 on a $15,000 investment, Holley Poe's was $712,000 on $10,000. As for the eleven partners of Dillon, Read & Co., their $18,750 investment had grown into $1.2 paper millions. They would also net about $380,000 in underwriting fees and $200,000 for selling the bonds, bringing their total profit...