Word: cornelius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Died. Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings. 75, Chicago & Manhattan capitalist and famed trotting-horse breeder (Uhlan, Lou Dillon, The Harvester, Major Delmar); of pneumonia; at "Billings Park," near Santa Barbara, Calif. At 18 he entered Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co., succeeded his father as president in 1887, became board chairman of Union Carbide & Carbon Co. in 1929; Turfman Billings was celebrated for his "horseback" parties at Manhattan's Sherry's. Guests rode their horses into the elevators, ascended to the dining room while mounted, were served by liveried waiters while their horses munched oats...
...following were advanced from one-year appointments to three-year appointments: Cornelius S. Hurlbut, Jr., Instructor in Mineralogy; Robert K. Merton, Instructor in Sociology and Tutor in the Division of Sociology; Arthur C. Comey '07, Associate Professor of Regional Planning; Edwin Mims, Jr., Instructor in Government and Tutor in the Division of History, Government and Economics; Sterling Dow '25, Instructor in History and Tutor in the Division of History, Government and Economics; Alden B. Greninger, Instructor in Metallurgy; and Ralph R. Hultgren, Instructor in Metallurgy...
Putting his Philadelphia Athletics through their training paces in Mexico City, 74-year-old Manager Cornelius Mc-Gillicuddy ("Connie Mack") was hit in the right shin by a ball, injured so painfully that he was whisked by train to a San Antonio hospital on a stretcher...
Boarding his yacht Winchester at Miami, 64-year-old Financier Cornelius Vanderbilt III plummeted 12 ft. into Biscayne Bay when the gangplank slipped...
...cinema industry would do well to give Hollywood an exclusive franchise on celebrations of the British Empire's past. To make a dull picture about the 1886 building of the Canadian Pacific Railway through the Rockies, climaxed by the fight between Canadian Pacific's William Cornelius Van Home and Great Northern's James Jerome Hill, sounds difficult. Silent Barriers-for which Director Milton Rosmer took cast and crew to Revelstoke, B. C. and endangered all their lives to photograph a forest fire-makes it look discouragingly easy. With the exception of a few shots of the fire...