Word: cornelius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grateful for this approach to Biltmore. In 1890, with Chicago's World Fair (Columbian Exposition ) still three years off, and popular interest in art largely limited to pyrography, china painting and the confection of Turkish cosy corners, George Washington Vanderbilt, sensitive, shy, 22-year-old grandson of Commodore Cornelius, commissioned the bearded Beaux-Artist Richard Morris Hunt to build for him the finest private house in America. Architect Hunt, who had already sprinkled Newport and Fifth...
...Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), manager & half owner of the Philadelphia American League baseball team ("Athletics"), was awarded the $10,000 Edward William Bok Prize for having done most for Philadelphia last year...
...literature," the Century selects members on the basis of cultural superiority. Its atmosphere of wealthy exclusiveness is matched only by its reputation for eminent respectability. Famed among its members are Herbert Clark Hoover, John Pierpont Morgan, George Woodward Wickersham, William Howard Taft, John William Davis, Henry Lewis Stimson. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Thomas William Lamont, Dwight Whitney Morrow, Owen D. Young, Elihu Root, Nicholas Murray Butler, Bishop William Thomas Manning...
Birthday. John Barton Payne, Chairman of the American Red Cross; at Washington. Date: Jan. 26. Age: 75. To felicitate him at Red Cross headquarters came General John Joseph Pershing. Ogden Livingston Mills, Charles Evans Hughes Jr., Cornelius Newton Bliss, Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas...
Birthday. Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), longtime (30 years) manager of the world champion Philadelphia American League ("Athletics") baseball team; at Philadelphia...