Word: cornelius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York curly-haired Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 33, Yale-man, socialite and inheritor of one-fourth of his father's 77-million-dollar fortune, including his great racing stable, announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Congressman from the first (North Long Island) district. He had the support of Democratic bosses against his friend, tall, handsome Robert Low Bacon, incumbent. Congressman Bacon, 48, onetime Harvard athlete son of rich, famed Robert Bacon, was once designated by Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka as "the wholesome, effective type of future American." Candidate Whitney, twice married, is a grandson of William Collins Whitney...
...Last year President Hoover was embarrassed when Cornelius Van Ness Leavitt, his brother-in-law, was arrested in Santa Monica for liquor possession. Mr. Leavitt was later acquitted in court (TIME. Nov. 23, Dec. 14). What the President's feelings were could only be guessed last week when he read an article in the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine by his sister, Mary Hoover Leavitt. Excerpts from "My Brother, the President": "The last time I saw him was more than three years ago at the inauguration. . . . My brother and I spent a last half-hour together. We had to talk...
...concession in Russia. In 1919, six years out of Yale, Son Harriman formed W. A. Harriman & Co. which conducted a large-scale investment banking business. Hard-working young Mr. Harriman, attractive and sociable (two years ago he married Marie Norton Whitney, art-wise first wife of his turf friend Cornelius Vanderbilt ["Sonny"] Whitney), did not make a raging success of the firm. Its financial bulwarking made it an appropriate party last year to a merger with Brown Bros. & Co., forming Brown Bros. Harriman & Co. Another Harriman venture is Harriman & Co., a small firm doing a lucrative business in commercial paper...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's Equipoise: his seventh race in a row, the Arlington Cup, at Chicago, in which Mate and Gusto were the only other horses entered: at odds of 1 to 4, by four lengths, with Gusto second...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's four-year-old racehorse Equipoise, who was retired early last season with a blind quarter crack: the Delavan Handicap at Arlington Park, defeating Jamestown, who had beaten him twice in 1930, by three lengths. Carrying top-weight of 128 lb., Equipoise covered the mile in 1 :34 2/5, or 3/5 sec. better than the world record for an oval track set by Jack High under 110 lb. at Belmont Park...