Word: cornelius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Papers filed in a Manhattan court showed that Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. would get nothing from his late father's estate, because the $910.000 the son owed him was more than the share left to him, and the will stipulated the debt be subtracted from the share...
...competition among Seniors graduating with honors was culminated this week by the selection of Jacob M. Duker, Cornelius A. Wood, and Howard G. Hageman as the three speakers to deliver the annual commencement parts at the final exercises on June...
Died. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 65, wealthy art patron, sculptress; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Great-granddaughter of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder of the family fortune, she was the widow of Manhattan Financier Harry Payne Whitney, who died in 1930 and left her the bulk of his $63,000,000 fortune. The following year she opened Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1934, in the course of a bitter legal battle, she won from her widowed sister-in-law, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, custody (five days a week) of Gloria Jr., then ten, now Mrs. Pat di Cicco...
Married. Swingster Benny Goodman, 32; and Alice Hammond Duckworth, 36, great-great-granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, niece of ex-Ambassador to Spain Ogden Hammond; she for the second time; in Las Vegas, Nev. She divorced Londoner George Arthur Victor Duckworth in January...
...Vanderbilts became royal entertainers of royalty (Grand Duke Boris of Russia once exclaimed: "I have never dreamed of such luxury. Is this really America, or have I landed on an enchanted island? ... It is like walking on gold."). New titular head of the Vanderbilt family: thrice-married Journalist Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 43 (Farewell to Fifth Avenue, Park Avenue, Palm Beach...