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...second question, the Fundamentalists attacked Dr. Fosdick and John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (pillar of the Park Avenue Church), as well as Dr. Cornelius Woelfkin, pastor of the church. Dr. Woelfkin will retire when Dr. Fosdick assumes the pastorate next January, but the question was of unseating the pastor because of his rich parishioner (Rockefeller) and his prospective successor. The Fundementalists in caucuses proposed "a continent-wide war to emancipate the Baptist denomination from the deathlike grip of the powerful combination of Mammon and Modernism," and asked: "Shall the Baptist denomination become the religious department of the Standard Oil Company...
...chanted skeptical and disrespectful members of hoipolloi upon reading in the press last week that young Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and young Marshall Field had been elected to the board of directors of the Metropolitan Opera Company at a special stockholders' meeting. "Both," explained the stockholders, "are serious music lovers." It was this statement, more than the rather unusual honor, that irritated the chanting representatives of the vulgate. They themselves, in their innocent rhymes and naive ditties, displayed a fondnes for music which, they were keenly conscious, has never been recognized with a directorate in any company whatever. They definitely...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, who recently succeeded Samuel W. Reyburn as a Director of the Guarantee Trust Company, is tall, muscular, pale-eyed, with a long neck and sloping shoulders which are the despair of tailors but which served him well at Yale (1922) where he pulled a good oar, dabbled in writing, discussed aesthetic topics with his instructors in a modest yet eager fashion. He has good taste in pictures, attends the opera regularly...
...Hindenburg. By them that valuable guarantee 'Freedom of the Press' has become a meaningless hackneyed byword. To them, printing the amount of a man's income will probably mean no more than commercializing the sorrow of a murderer's mother or the innocent family of a prostitute." ? Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., Proprietor...
...Baldwin Jr., F. L. Barton, Robert Blaney, D. B. Bianchi, J. A. Blais, H. G. Bradlee, S. W. Bridges, Howes Burton, J. L. Carroll Jr., W. R. Chase, S. F. Collier, Richard Collins, L. O. Combs, E. S. Daniell Jr., Lincoln Davis Jr., E. H. Dewey, M. L. Donaldson, Cornelius DuBois, W. S. Duncklee, J. H. Durgin, W. O. Field, Bradley Fisk, H. S. French, C. W. Gillies, D. H. Gordon, J. S. Grimes, J. A. Halsted, C. L. Harding Jr., C. A. Harper, C. J. Henderson, C. W. Hillard, A. M. Hollander, N. S. Howe, W. F. Homer...