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...happily did Anaconda appear to be sitting on the top of the copper heap that few observers were conscious, last week, of Anaconda's troubles. But Chairman of the Board John D. Ryan and President Cornelius F. Kelly knew that, prosperity or no prosperity, two thorns remained in the side of Anaconda to irritate, exasperate. One thorn was George Campbell Carson. The other was William A. Clark...
...scholarship is established, according to Mr. Pugsley's letter to Dean Pound, in honor of his father, Cornelius A. Pugsley, and his mother, Mrs. Emma Catherine Gregory Pugsley. The recipients of these awards will be designated by the governments of their native countries. In case of default of such official designation, the dean of the Law School will be empowered to select a qualified foreign student...
Above San Diego last week two planes collided. Both pilots hastily climbed from their cockpits, felt for their parachutes, jumped. Lieut. W. L. Cornelius was too hasty. His parachute caught on the instrument board and he was dragged to his death with the two machines which crashed, locked together. So died the second of the army's famous "Three Musketeers" (TIME, Sept. 24). At Mines Field Col. Charles A. Lindbergh was for a time the leader of this group of which Lieut. Irving A. Woodring is now the sole survivor...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., young publisher of three tabloids which died quickly, was completely reconciled, last week, with his parents, Gen. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. "They no longer oppose my career as a journalist," said Son Vanderbilt, as he continued writing pieces for syndicates and magazines to help pay off his tabloid debts...
Brig.-Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt and Col. Palmer E. Pierce last week led forth New York's famed 77th Division for reservist maneuvers along a "battle front" in New Jersey and Pennsylvania...