Word: utilitycoons
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...Elected to the presidency of Kansas City Southern Railway was Arkansas Public Utilitycoon Harvey Crowley Couch. The road's second largest stockholder, Ozarker Couch succeeds C. E. Johnston, now president of the Western Association of Railway Executives...
Died. David Lamar, circa 70, "Wolf of Wall Street." tipster, swindler, speculator, jailbird; of heart disease; in an unpretentious Manhattan hotel; age, origin and real name unknown. He appeared in Manhattan in the mid-nineties, fell in with an aged utilitycoon who soon lost five-sixths of a $6,000,000 fortune, soon blossomed out as a bigtime stock manipulator with a taste for hot birds, cold bottles, fast horses and the flashiest Broadway cabarets. So notorious were his corporate nuisance suits that J. P. Morgan the Elder denounced him as "vermin...