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Also: David Sinton Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics; Patrick Jay Hurley, Assistant Secretary of War; Frederic A. Tilton, Third Assistant Postmaster General; Charles Evans Hughes Jr., Solicitor-General...
...Erie (third oldest U. S. road, founded 1832) showed fair progress up to and through the Civil War, then passed into the hands of Jay Gould, Jim Fiske and Daniel Drew. There followed a long series of unprofitable years, during which the Erie was an "orphan" road, no one interest controlling it. In 1924 the Van Sweringens secured control, and the Erie soon began to show a profit instead of 3 loss. Erie's 1927 net income was $3,512,650; its 1928 income was $10,002,883. For the first quarter of 1929 it showed...
...Frank Jay Gould of Nice, France, son of the late famed U. S. Railroad Pioneer Jay Gould, was gloomy last week. He read statistics showing that his Casino de la Mediterranee, gambling establishment for which he paid more than $5,000,000, had lost $800,000 in the past five months...
...Sargent and the Warepoch he speaks for be damned or be praised in the future. You won't better matters by expunging records. They may signify something that you haven't thought of. Yours sincerely, John Jay Chapman...
Such has been the history of many a U. S. scandal. But such was not the case last month when 19-year-old Howard, Prince of Sagan, son of the Duchess de Talleyrand, who was Anna, the daughter of the late wealthy Jay Gould, shot himself on purpose in his mother's Paris home. The press did not get wind of the story until last week. When the press came, the Duchess was ready with a frank, detailed and-most important of all-entirely literate statement; one that prevented garbling by scandal-monging journals. The statement said: "The Duke...