Word: cornelius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their fleet the year before, Bacardi Cup for all star boat skippers who feel like entering-are decided by points, after three races. Somehow or other, Cuban yachtsmen who have the advantage of sailing on home waters seldom acquire many points. U. S. skippers-Adrian Iselin II, Paul and Cornelius Shields, Harkness Edwards, a jolly Pittsburgher who won the Cuba Cup last year, Edwin, Jahncke, son of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Jahncke-were well in front last week by the time the boats started the last race of the Cuba Cup series. In a close finish, the Shields...
Another Whitney formally took to horse racing when plump Joan Whitney Payson registered her colors (pink-&-black) with the American Jockey Club. Other Whitney stable owners: her mother, Mrs. Payne Whitney (pink-&-black); her sister-in-law, Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney (fuchsia-&-purple); her cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney (blue-&-brown) with whom Mrs. Payson's large, handsome husband Charles rowed for Yale...
...Canada. In a formation take-off his plane collided with another, killed its pilot. Shortly after he flew as one of the daring "Three Musketeers" of the Air Corps at Rockwell Field, Calif. First he saw Musketeer "Willie" Williams land on his back. A month later Musketeer W. L. Cornelius died in a mid-air collision. Lieut. Woodring carried on, helped refuel the Army's famed Question Mark endurance plane; flew from Vancouver to New York in record time with a copy of Japan's ratification of the London Naval Treaty (1930). Another officer flying with a duplicate...
Birthdays. Frank Billings Kellogg, 76; Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), 70; Rudyard Kipling, 67; Harvey Samuel Firestone. 64; Edwin Arlington Robinson, 63; Lucrezia Bori, 43; England's Prince George, 30; Princess Maria of Italy...
...into appalling reality. The demands were made at first through Dr. Otto Sussman, engineer president of American Metal Co. which has invested some $30,000,000 of its $90,000,000 in assets in Roan Antelope and affiliated Rhodesian mines. At the conference table were the lords of copperdom: Cornelius Francis Kelley of Anaconda, which has 60% of its production outside the U. S.; Louis Shattuck Gates of Phelps Dodge whose strategies saved the conference a year ago; Stephen Birch of Morgan-linked Kennecott; James Y. Murdoch of gold & copper producing Noranda; Felicien Cattier of Africa's Katanga; Robert...