Word: cornelius
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...educators met daily, talked shop. They elected Edwin Cornelius Broome, superintendent of Philadelphia schools, to be president of the department for the next year, succeeding President Robert Norman Crozier of Dallas, Tex., who becomes first vice president. (The National Education Association proper convenes every July, elects its own president...
Last week, just as the fuss over Major General Smedley Darlington Butler's "Mussolini Speech" had nearly died away. up popped Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr. in Los Angeles. Mr. Vanderbilt stated that it was he who had supplied the rambunctious General with the anecdote of Il Duce's alleged hit & run motor drive, for relating which the General was reprimanded by the Navy Department (TIME, Feb. 9; 16). But the imaginative young publicist was very wroth because General Butler "took a story of mine, twisted it around to score a point for himself, and made me the goat...
...Rome the Foreign Office wearily reiterated that Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. had never ridden in a motor car with Benito Mussolini...
Engaged. Alice Szechenyi, 19, daughter of Count Laszlo Szechenyi. Hungarian Minister to the U. S. and Countess Gladys Szechenyi who was the late Cornelius Vanderbilt's daughter; and Count Bela Hadik, 26, son of an oldtime Hungarian Prime Minister...
...William Henry Vanderbilt, Republican National Committeeman, Rhode Island State Senator, son of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, who was the great-grandson of famed Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt...