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...lists of Morgan "friends" who were cut into stock deals below the market included the names of New Jersey's Senator Kean, Massachusetts' Lieutenant Governor Gaspar Bacon, Edgar Rickard, business associate of Herbert Hoover, Arkansas' Harvey Couch, now on R. F. C., Connecticut's G. O. P. Boss John Henry Roraback. The only "friend" revealed as having turned down a Morgan offer on ethical grounds was Board Chairman Edward Grant Buckland of New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. Partner Whitney made a spirited defense of his firm's practice on the ground that...
Hoover visitors: Ogden Livingston Mills, Patrick Jay Hurley, Walter Folger Brown, George Barr Baker, Republican State Chairman William Kingsland Macy, Edgar Rickard (Hoover financial adviser), unnamed offerers of business connections, many a charitable organization seeking backing...
...Nevada. In Winnemucca he learned faro, poker, bird-cage and 21. He was soon called "The Boy Gambler" and banked his own faro. He was in Goldfield during the 1906 boom, made a million dollars in mining stocks. His contemporaries in those days included the late Tex Rickard, who was running a gambling hall, and Charles Victor Bob, engineer-promoter. His gambling halls grew so large that his cashiers began handling $5,000,000 a year. Nevadans regard him as one of the best friends their sagebrushy State has ever had, for he remained there after having grown rich...
...Sherrington-Adrian award gave Great Britain a score of six Nobel Prizes in Medicine, against the two for the U. S. Previous Britons: the late Sir Ronald Ross (1902), Archibald Vivian Hill (1922), John James Rickard Macleod (1923, while at Toronto), Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1929). The U. S. Nobelmen: French-born Alexis Carrel (1912), Austrian-born Karl Landsteiner...
...Marquis of Clydesdale in boxing, then went world-touring with him. While at Oxford, Eddie Eagan met the Prince of Wales. "The Prince soon put me at my ease. He asked many questions about boxing and also about my life at Oxford. The Prince is a staunch Oxonian. . . ." Tex Rickard and many another pro moter invited Eddie Eagan to turn pro fessional. Unlike most good amateur fighters, Eddie Eagan did not do it. but he trained with famed prizefighters like Mike McTigue, Gene Tunney. Cat-footed, slow and soft of speech, gentle as a St. Bernard, he is recognized...