Word: cornelius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Board of Trustees' Committee on Painting, long a rampart of conservatism. Committee conservatives are Architect Cass Gilbert, Lawyers Elihu Root Jr., William Church Osborn and Sugarman Horace Havemeyer who has given the Metropolitan many a Degas, Manet, Puvis de Chavannes. Modernism might have been doomed but for Committeeman Cornelius Bliss, a recent appointee,* brother and estate executor of the late Lizzie Bliss, benefactor of the Museum of Art. Conscientious, publicity shy, Cornelius Bliss is stanch for his late sister's modern art. When Curator Burroughs presented his nine selections to the Committee, Committeemen Gilbert and Root were absent...
Married. Anne Marie Wallace, of Manhattan, great-great-granddaughter of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt; and Don Rodolfo del Drago. son of the late Prince Ferdinando del Drago; by Papal Secretary of State Cardinal Pacelli; in Rome. A witness for the groom: Senator Guglielmo Marconi...
...Prince Nondiyavat Svasti, younger brother of Siam's small Queen Rambai Barni, was graduated from Georgetown University. From Allegheny College (Meadville, Pa.) was graduated Paul All-man Siple, Erie Boy Scout who accompanied the Byrd expedition to the South Pole in 1930. At Germantown Academy (Pa.), Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy Jr., son of the Athletics' famed manager, won the Robert E. Lamberton Medal for the best record in athletics (baseball, basketball, football) and scholarship...
...they were absorbed by Anaconda through an exchange of stock. At one time Chairman Ryan said he had a profit of $1,250,000 on his Chile operation, but the Anaconda received in exchange now showed him a large loss. Smart Harry Guggenheim sold out, made $404,000. President Cornelius Francis Kelley of Anaconda, no witness, interrupted: "Mr. Gray is trying to ride the witness for the benefit of the gallery...
Extra large pigeonholes bear the names of General Electric, R. C. A., N. B. C, Owen D. Young, Edward A. Filene, Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., cigarets, oranges, electric lights. Old Dan Beard has had a pigeonhole since Henry Romeike's time. Sir Thomas Lipton was a client until his death, received packing-boxes full of clippings after the last Gold Cup race. Col. Lindbergh was a client of a small agency before his takeoff for Paris. When the bureau sued him for payment last year he declared he had contracted only for the first $35 worth. Harry Kendall Thaw...