Word: cornelius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin of Alabama now has against the Roman Catholic Church. Senator Cato drove his point home by concluding all his speeches with the phrase: Delenda est Carthago! ("Carthage must be destroyed!") The year Cato died, Rome started her third Punic War (149-146 B.C.) and Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus the Younger literally did destroy Carthage. He killed all the inhabitants, razed every building, sprinkled salt on the ground to prevent husbandry, dedicated the place to the gods of the infernal regions...
...Minerals, the Belgian outlet lor the Katanga mines of Africa. Although producers insisted M. Pisart's visit was merely a routine one, many observers interpreted it as a crisis in the affairs of Copper Exporters, Inc., international price-controlling combine. When Copper Exporters was organized, its president Cornelius Kelley of Anaconda Copper Mining Co. optimistically stated that its purpose was to keep the price adjusted to day-to-day conditions in Europe. European consumers, long unwilling to pay 18? for copper, now grudgingly purchasing a minimum at 14?, feel this policy has been violated. In retaliation they have found...
...earth in real trouble, followed by a floating parachute. Roberts dashed off a map showing the wreck, flashed it to headquarters. The man with the parachute (he landed safely) was Lieut. Irving A. Woodring, sole survivor of the Army's famed "Three Musketeers" flying team. Lieuts. W. L. Cornelius and J. J. Williams, his onetime partners, were killed in California two years ago (TIME...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., eccentric journalist, junketing in Mexico City, directed a cab driver to take him to his hotel. Malicious or misunderstanding, the driver continued toward the city limits until Mr. Vanderbilt tapped him on the skull with the small blackjack he carries for self-defense...
Married. William Averill Harriman, 38, active son of a super-active father (the late great railroader Edward Henry Harriman), Long Island poloist and socialite, head of W. A. Harriman & Co., Inc., recently divorced; and Marie Norton Whitney, 26, mother of two, who last September divorced Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, financier-sportsman son of financier-sportsman Harry Payne Whitney; in Manhattan. The couple sailed immediately on the Bremen for a honeymoon in Southern France...