Jay Gould

According to Ms. Olsen, Woodlawn boasts 37 sets of signed Tiffany windows and five New York City-designated "Great Trees," including the largest weeping beech tree in the five boroughs; it's on the 30,000-square-foot plot of robber baron Jay Gould .

Life Among the Headstones Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

Robber barons like the financier Jay Gould, the railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, controlled much of American industry; the gap between rich and poor had turned into a chasm; urban slums festered; children worked long hours in factories; women couldn't vote and black Americans were subject to Jim Crow; and the lackeys of rich literally deposited sacks of money on desks of pliant legislators.

Robert Reich: The Rebirth of Social Darwinism Robert Reich 2011

In 1870, the essayist Henry Adams compared the financier Jay Gould to a spider; Joseph Pulitzer, the famous editor, later called Gould "one of the most sinister figures that have ever flitted bat-like across the vision of the American people."

Why Bankers Should Be Grateful for Occupy Wall Street Jason Zweig 2011

Customers like Jay Gould complain they sometimes get lost in the gap between the two airlines.

The Airline That Loses Bags, Cancels Flights Scott McCartney 2012

On the original "Black Friday"—not the shopping day after Thanksgiving, but Sept. 24, 1869, when Jay Gould cornered and crashed the gold market—fury was in the air.

Why Bankers Should Be Grateful for Occupy Wall Street Jason Zweig 2011

More photos and interactive graphics It's a fair bet that Jay Gould passed this way 130-odd years ago, when he owned the Missouri Pacific, nibbling ladyfingers baked by his French chef.

When a Gulfstream V Just Won't Do, Try Riding Like a Rail Baron Barry Newman 2011

Four decades after the bloody murder of financier Jim Fisk over romance and money, the disgrace of Jay Gould over skulduggery involving the Erie Railroad, and the imprisonment of Tammany Hall boss William Tweed for massive corruption, the associate and sometime partner of the three men, Daniel Drew, appeared to come clean in a memoir.

Scandals in Truth Or Just in Print H.W. Brands 2011

"They are just trying to be smarter about what they do, recognizing that if they are not able to catch someone engaged in fraud, it is generally viewed as a failure of the agency," said Jay Gould , head of the investment-funds practice at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in San Francisco.

Why Hedge Funds Tripped in a Volatile Year Steve Eder 2012

The "other essays" include a searing account of the 1869 attempt by Jay Gould and Jim Fisk to corner the gold market and put the country's finances at their mercy.

Scandals in Truth Or Just in Print H.W. Brands 2011

"An angry mob gathered…howling for vengeance," wrote historian Maury Klein in his biography "The Life and Legend of Jay Gould," and "a company of militia was hurriedly ordered into readiness."

Why Bankers Should Be Grateful for Occupy Wall Street Jason Zweig 2011