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Word: railroads (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vote, Mr. Hopkins dived at his new job with all speed. He announced he would retain "Uncle Dan" Roper's impressive Business Advisory Council, most of whose many members are "close personal friends." He asked his specially close friend, W. Averell Harriman, board chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad Co. and also of the Advisory Council, to come to Washington as soon as convenient. He hired able Political Correspondent Victor Sholis of the Chicago Times to handle the press relations of what will now be the most conspicuous, instead of the most obscure, Roosevelt department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Presents | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...first U. S. Gould was Nathan Gold of England. A later Gould was Colonel Abraham, killed in a battle during the Revolution at Ridgefield, Conn. Jay Gould built a railroad empire and fought his battles in Wall Street. In many ways Helen took after her father. He left her $10,000,000 and made her (with three of his sons) a trustee of his $84,000,000 estate. She ran up her $10,000,000 to an estimated $30,000,000. She invested in traction properties and made an annual tour of 7,000 miles to inspect them. A strange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Useful Daughter | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

Helen Gould was not only interested in railroads, but a notable patron of the Railroad Y. M. C. A. One of the first beneficiaries of her charity was the U. S. Government, to which, in 1898, she gave $100,000 to help defray the expenses of "freeing" Cuba. She was also a pillar of the Red Cross, the D. A. R., the Dutch Reformed Church, and supported the American Tract Society in its efforts to reconvert Soviet Russia to Christianity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Useful Daughter | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...till 1913, when she was 45, did she marry. On one of her country-wide business inspection tours she met Finley J. Shepard, who had long worked for the Gould railroads, was then assistant to the president of Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. By a provision of Jay Gould's will none of his children could marry without the consent of the trustees of his estate. She got the consent. She and her husband, who survives her, had no children, but they adopted a three-year-old waif, who was found on the steps of Manhattan's St. Patrick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Useful Daughter | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...valley, he may eventually have to retire to the Soviet-controlled areas of Sinkiang and Outer Mongolia. Should that occur China's cause will necessarily become Russia's battle. For Russia cannot tolerate a Japanese threat to the long southern border of Siberia and the trans-Siberian railroad. But before that can happen Japan, which conquered one New China, will have to conquer still another New China not so strong in resources but much stronger in natural defenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Westward Ho! | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

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