Word: vanderbilt
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...famed Restigouche River, the Atlantic salmon are not only king-size (up to 48 Ibs.), but the sport of hooking them takes a regal bankroll. Fishing leases cost up to $25,000 a year for the exclusive Restigouche clubs, where rosters are studded with names like Du Pont, Vanderbilt and Whitney. Even in the limited government waters, the fee is $40 a rod per day, and only 70 permits are issued each year...
...newly arrested comrades fussed loudly about bail. Originally it was set at $277,500, so that the Commies would think twice about jumping bail as Gerhart Eisler did, but later it was trimmed to $176,000. To the Reds' rescue, as usual, came wealthy Party-Liner Frederick Vanderbilt Field, who put up $31,000 in U.S. bonds, $5,000 in cash, enough to spring four...
...idea behind the center came to Texas via Manhattan. Arthur T. Vanderbilt, now New Jersey's chief justice, first proposed the plan for an American "Inn" in 1946, while he was dean of New York University's Law School. The present S.M.U. Dean Robert Storey frankly admits borrowing the idea, was raising money for his center before N.Y.U. had even, finished plans...
When Commodore Vanderbilt, a smart railroad buccaneer himself, got a court injunction against the unholy three, they scooped $6,000,000 in cash out of the Erie treasury, scuttled across the Hudson to Jersey City. To keep Vanderbilt at bay, Fisk mounted three 12-lb. cannon on the docks outside the Erie's transplanted headquarters, donned an admiral's uniform to stage-dress his defiance. Meanwhile, foxy Jay Gould bribed the New York state legislature with $1,000,000 to legalize the fraudulent stock certificates...
Help at Last. This forced even doughty Commodore Vanderbilt to make peace. For $4,500,000 out of the Erie's treasury, he agreed to leave Gould, Fisk and Drew in control of the road. Gould soon double-crossed Drew and ruined him; Jim Fisk was murdered by a rival for the hand of Actress Josie Mansfield. By the time Gould was ousted from the Erie presidency in 1872, he had looted the treasury and wrecked the Erie's finances. Although it bravely extended its line to Chicago by 1875, it remained top-heavy with debt, repeatedly went...