Word: gould
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walked from his home on 36th Street to sip coffee and smoke cigars in the lobby. Mark Twain, in his white suit, used its decorous billiard room; Tammany Boss Richard Croker gave small dinners behind closed doors, invariably ordering terrapin. President McKinley fell heir to the Cleveland suite; Jay Gould, Senator George Hearst and P. T. Barnum made it their headquarters...
...great part of that legend was associated with the position of the House of Morgan. The legend began with the elder Morgan, John Pierpont (Maximus), a Hartford boy who went down to New York to do battle with Fisk and Gould, to trade with Vanderbilt for the control of U.S. railroads, to integrate U.S. industry through the power of finance...
These earnings, announced last week by the Interstate Commerce Commission, brought out charges so bitter that one might have supposed that the railroads not only had made big money but had made it through the devious exploits of a Gould, Fisk, or Daniel Drew...
...Famed for his murder in 1872 of his friend Jim Fisk (Jay Gould's partner) after quarrels over bad business and bad, buxom Actress Josie Mansfield. Killer Stokes got off with four years in Sing Sing, emerged to buy control of the Hoffman House...
Both Starr and Gould were in the U.S. on Pearl Harbor morning. The Post's Managing Editor Frederick B. Opper was caught in Shanghai...