Word: cornelius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early in the 1920's he got the ear of Harry Payne Whitney through his playboy son, Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, who knew something about mining as well as water travel (see cut), canoed through Manitoba lakes and rivers to inspect the claims in person. Upshot was organization of Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting in 1927 with the Flin Flon claims and $17,500,000 in cash. Jack Hammell and his hungry prospectors had already been paid off on substantially their own terms...
...received countermanding orders last week when it was realized in Washington that his knowledge of Chinese dialects and experience in dealing with Chinese bandits might not be of great help in shooting Ethiopian trouble. Mr. Hanson was therefore ordered to Saloniki, Greece. To Addis Ababa was ordered First Secretary Cornelius Van H. Engert of the U. S. Legation at Cairo, the State Department having discovered that he has served in Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Persia and Afghanistan and speaks languages likely to be more useful in Ethiopia than Chinese...
...Long Island's swank North Shore estate of onetime Aircraft Manufacturer Grover Cleveland Loening, 500 socialites gathered for a beauty contest between "16 Gorgeous, Glorious, Glamorous Girls, a Breath-taking Panoply of Pulchritude" enlisted from the neighborhood's own select ranks. Among the contestants were Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney as Miss Wheatley Hills, Mrs. John R. Fell as Miss Woodbury, Helen Whitney Bourne as Miss Mitt Neck, Mrs. George Hepburn as Miss Locust Valley, Mrs. Jay Carlisle Jr. as Miss East Islip. The young women first paraded before the judges in evening dress, then in bathing suits. Selected...
...strange organizations functioning in the amusement industry, Pioneer Pictures, Inc. is one of the strangest. Organized two years ago, it is run by John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 30, and his Cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 35, whom Jock interested in cinema as Sonny had interested him in aviation. Board members are almost exclusively Whitneys. Last week the Whitneys had made ready for the U. S. public, at a cost of $1,000,000, the first full-length color picture since 1931-8,000 ft. and 1½ hours of 19th Century romance which may or may not revolutionize the cinema...
...virtue of 42 years in the same job, dean of U. S. university presidents, surprised no one who knew him. The "university" which Chancellor Kirkland took over in 1893 was a backward little college bossed by a jealous coterie of Methodist Episcopal bishops. Twenty years earlier "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, whose cousin-in-law was one of the bishops, had endowed it with $500,000. Chancellor Kirkland, after a bitter fight in Tennessee's Supreme Court, broke the grip of the Church. Then, with the Vanderbilts behind him, he made himself autocrat. Several millions of dollars from the Vanderbilts...