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Neighbors and contemporary scions of the No. 1 family of the U. S. turf, 33-year-old John Hay ("Jock") Whitney and his 38-year-old first cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney have had to learn how to do the same things all their lives without suggesting rivalry. While Cousin Sonny maintained the famed racing establishment he inherited from his father, Harry Payne Whitney, Cousin Jock built up a stable of racers equal to the great Greentree Stable his mother inherited from his father, (William) Payne Whitney. Jock has interested Sonny in Technicolor, just as Sonny interested...
...JOHN CORNELIUS-Hugh Walpole-Doubleday, Doran ($3). Lengthy, first- person novel purporting to be the life story of a famous writer (1884-1921) and friend of Walpole. Readers will conjure up many a conjecture over who's who in this literary gallery...
German-born, German-trained Chemist Kochs took over the little Victor plant in Chicago Heights after his father-in-law had acquired it in payment of a debt, incorporated it in 1902. Losing regularly at first, he persuaded Cornelius Vanderbilt, President John R. Hegemen of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and Banker William A. Read to "take a flyer" with $150,000. They never had cause to regret the move-business picked up in 1907, and with the War Victor left its competitors behind. In 1920 it expanded by building a second plant in West Nashville, near Tennessee's phosphate...
...newspaper, his boss, an enthusiast named Byron Cole, sold him on the idea of taking over Nicaragua. A fat prize, it turned out to be too fat-Walker had to meet competition from the feasting eyes of England, Spain, the U. S., the more glittering eye of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who controlled the lucrative transit route across Nicaragua. The deal by which Walker evaded U. S. neutrality laws provided that the Nicaraguan "Democrats" .invite him to send in "colonists." By the time the "Democrat" leaders realized what Walker was up to, it was too late to regret having asked...
...Wall Street in the decade after the Civil War. Abetted by his young cronies, Nick Boyd (Gary Grant) and Luke (Jack Oakie), Fisk amiably horn-swoggles pious little Dan Drew (Donald Meek) out of control of the Erie Railroad, then makes a fortune by selling watered Erie stock to Cornelius Vanderbilt. Pursued by the law, he uses the Ninth Regiment, of which he is the Colonel, to help him get across the Hudson to New Jersey, uses the profits from his killing to start a one-day corner on the gold market. When President Grant announces that...