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...rumored that Cornelius Van- derbilt Jr., unsuccessful publisher of the Miami Tab, the Los Angeles News and the San Francisco Herald, had been offered the position of editor of Liberty magazine, recently purchased by Macfadden Publications, Inc. (TIME, April 13). But last week he took the job of vice president in Lyman, Irish & Co., Manhattan advertising agency...
Married. Alice Szechenyi, daughter of Count Laszlo Szechenyi, Hungarian Minister to the U. S. and Countess Szechenyi who was Gladys, daughter of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt; and Count Bela Hadik, son of Count John Hadik, who, once Hungarian premier, is now a member of the upper house of the Hungarian Parliament; in Washington, D. C.; by Most Rev. Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi, Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., who concluded the service by reading a cablegram from His Holiness Pope Pius XI blessing the couple "as a pledge of heavenly favor...
...mourning. The nation had lost its Speaker but there would be others; a multitude of people, high and low, had lost a charming friend who could not be replaced. The range of his friendships was reflected in the long list of honorary pallbearers, including William ("Wild Bill") Donovan and Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr., Joseph Leiter and Efrem Zimbalist, Will Rogers and Clarence Mackay, Albert Lasker and Percy Rivington Pyne...
...Clarke called upon Fox's shareholders to elect six new directors. At the head of the list was Banker Wiggin, director of a myriad of mighty companies, also of less prosperous ones such as American Woolen, Armour & Co., International Agricultural Corp. Proposed to stand beside him were General Cornelius Vanderbilt, whose directorships include Chase National Bank, Illinois Central Railroad, and Saratoga Association for the Improvement of the Breed of Horses; Phillip Ream Clarke, president of Central Trust Co. of Illinois; Frank Overton Watts, chairman of First National Bank in St. Louis; George Monroe Moffett, vice president of Corn Products...
...Yale Polo Team, Lawrence Alexander ("Chew") Baldwin, James Paul ("Jimmy") Mills, Joseph Cornelius ("Cokie") Rathborne: the intercollegiate indoor polo championship; by beating Harvard 10 to 7 in the final round, at Manhattan...