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Sentencing Wrecker Rockwood to one-to-ten years in the Joliet penitentiary, Judge Cornelius Harrington held up his hands in horror when Mr. Rockwood asked to be released on bond to wind up his affairs. Snapped the judge: "I should say not. I want to be sure this building will be here when I come back...
...Pennsylvania the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee wrote a different story. In smoky Pittsburgh, Democratic Mayor Cornelius D. Scully polled 122,400 votes to the 92,800 for Robert N. Waddell, onetime Carnegie Tech football coach. S. W. O. C. mayors and burgesses were swept into office in the historic steel towns of Ambridge, Brackenridge, Clairton, Donora, Duquesne, Monessen, Rankin. Even in Aliquippa, where Tom Girdler made his name as a Jones & Loughlin executive and where until four years ago there were only eight registered Democrats, the S. W. O. C. candidate, George L. Kiefer, defeated Republican Mayor Morgan...
...injunction was refused to the Longa Co. and Hacendado Alberto Danadieu: who sought to stop further land expropriation in the State of Sonora. Pudgy-cheeked President Cardenas made plans to supervise personally the land-division in Sonora, where are located the haciendas of such newsmaking names as Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, the John Hays Hammond estate, the Richardson Co. of Arizona...
Last week eight fillies were sold in Lexington, Ky. To sportswriters, whose occupational disease is sentimentality, this sale was an occasion for mourning. It followed hard on an announcement by Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney that he was going to give up racing for good, and it marked the beginning of the end of a Grand Old Stable...
Sportswriters' hearts missed a beat when Son Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, after inheriting the family stable in 1930, intimated that he was less interested in racing than in playing polo. In those Depression days a Wall Street delegation actually beseeched him not to impair public confidence by giving up the country's No. 1 stable, an act which would have looked like economy in high places. Sentiment and enthusiasm for a horse named Equipoise finally determined his application to the Jockey Club for permission to race under his father's colors, "Light-blue jacket, brown...