Word: cornelius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...During the funeral of William Cornelius Van Home, second president of Canadian Pacific Railway, most outstanding of its builders, every wheel in the vast CPR system was stopped...
...Famed persons divorced by Judge Bartlett in the last four years: Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., Irving T. Bush (terminal), Mrs. Bainbridge Colby (diplomacy), Janet Flagg Harlan Trubee (judiciary), Claire Brokaw (Vanity Fair), Eugenia Bankhead Hoyt Butt Lee (Actress Tallulah's sister), Jessica Sargeant (now Mrs. Richard Barthelmess), Evelyn Marshall Field (department store), Walker Inman (tobacco), Delphine Dodge Cromwell Baker (automobile), Edward Delafield (finance), Louise Annette Thompson (railroad), John Bellinger Bellinger (Army), Lora I. Knight (aviation), Beryl Curtis Ward (bread), Dorothy Cochrane Karageorgevitch (Serbian royalty), Peter Arthur Drury Jr. (Washington, D. C.), Sidi Wirt Spreckels (sugar), Adelaide Rhinelander Chaqueneau...
...Cheever Cowdins gave a party the night before and Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney gave one the night after. There were parties all week through Long Island's polo country. Big cars hurried along the roads, driving a little faster than usual for there were many trips to be made-guests met at the station, a wait at the front door and then to Meadow Brook or Piping Rock for lunch, then the game, then out to dinner, and a long wait through the dancing. At the parties, and in the garish, robins-egg blue grandstand at the games...
...Jersey. Three years later he was ousted from control. He immediately formed Chevrolet Company and by May 1916 was able to tell G. M. directors that once again he was in control. Five years later he was forced to tender his resignation. The greatest bull since Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt was broke and jobless...
...Cornelius Jansen Bishop of Ypres in his Augustinus suggested five heretical propopositions based on St. Augustine's Doctrine of Grace. One important group of still exists in Holland...