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December 25, 1926

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GOULD HEIRS AGREE; TRUSTEES TO REPAY ESTATE $20,000,000; Ten Years of Litigation Over Claims for $50,000,000 End in Compromise. FAMILY DESIRES HARMONY Children of G.J. Gould by His Second Marriage Included -- Special Funds for Them. COURTS' APPROVAL AWAITED Extra Payments of $2,750,000 Each to Trust Funds of Frank Gould and Duchesse de Talleyrand. GOULD ESTATE TO GET $20,000,000 REPAID

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Litigation ends in compromise, based on decision of Referee J A O'Gorman, and subject to approval of N Y Supreme Court and N J Court of Chancery; 4 trustees, Edwin Gould, Helen Gould Shepard, Howard Gould and the late Geo J Gould will repay estate $20,000,000; extra payments to be made to trust funds of Frank Gould and Duchesse de Talleyrand; children of Geo J Gould by 2d wife, Guinevere Sinclair Gould, now Lady Dunsford, included in settlement; terms in detail

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Notable Births

Enrique Jorrín

1926Enrique Jorrín, Cuban violinist and composer (died 1987)[†]

Enrique Jorrín was a Cuban charanga violinist, composer and music director. He is considered the inventor of the cha-cha-chá, a popular style of ballroom music derived from danzón.

Notable Deaths

Emperor Taishō

1926Emperor Taishō of Japan (born 1879)[†]

Yoshihito , posthumously honored as Emperor Taishō , was the 123rd emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 1912 until his death in 1926. His reign, known as the Taishō era, was characterized by a liberal and democratic shift in domestic political power, known as Taishō Democracy. Yoshihito also oversaw Japan's participation in the First World War from 1914 to 1918, the Spanish flu pandemic, and the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923.