Word: cornelius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia Athletics have two problems: 1) laws prohibiting Sunday baseball; 2) rookie outfielders to replace Haas and Simmons, whom Manager Cornelius McGillicuddy had to sell, along with Infielder Dykes, to the Chicago White Sox for $80,000 last autumn...
...Harry Payne Whitney, who inherited most of William Collins Whitney's fortune, organized the U. S. polo team that beat England in 1909, owned and sailed the America's Cup contender Vanitie (1910), in 1930 left the finest string of race horses in the U. S. to Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, his son by Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Sonny Whitney, almost as horsy as his Cousin Jock, has extended his family's business interests by becoming an active director of Pan American Airways. Last autumn he tried to become swank Long Island's Congressman...
...made last week by Geraldine Farrar. White-haired and chic, she appeared on the Metropolitan stage between acts at Parsifal, so roused the audience that people started to hand checks and dollar bills over the footlights. Next night Mrs. August Belmont spoke and three of her friends (Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. Charles B. Alexander, Mrs. Robert Goelet) waved $1,000 checks from the Diamond Horseshoe. Contributions of $10,000, biggest individual ones so far, came from Pierre du Pont and Louis Eckstein who still hopes to be able to give his own opera this summer at Chicago's Ravinia...
Winthrop Williams Aldrich, Cornelius Vanderbilt III, Matthew Chauncey Brush and Charles E. Richardson resigned as directors of Fox Film Corp. to make way for Senator Daniel O. Hastings of Delaware (receiver for General Theatres Equipment, Inc., which controls Fox) and several Fox officials. No change of control was signified, but gentlemen had a natural desire to retire from a directorate on which the limelight of Senatorial investigation may soon be playing...
...loan to be repaid in 1938 with 6% interest. The Metropolitan's chairman, Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath who is also a trustee of the Juilliard School, contradicted only the statement that the Juilliard Foundation had offered solid backing. But both he and quiet Cornelius Bliss, the boxholder who is working hardest to raise the $300,000, signified that as a mouthpiece John Erskine had overstepped his bounds...