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Acquitted last week after a trial before a federal judge in Washington: Frederick Field, left-wing scion of Cornelius Vanderbilt and longtime wealthy of U.S. Communism. The charge: contempt of Congress in refusing to an 32 questions put to him last spring by a Senate subcommittee. Field's defense: his answers, if made, would have to incriminate him. Score to date eight congressional contempt cases: six acquittals...
Drew was soon joined on the Erie board by Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, a slippery pair of Civil War profiteers and stock-market riggers. In 1866, the trio tangled with Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, who wanted to get control of the Erie because it competed with his New York Central, then pushing westward to Chicago. When Vanderbilt tried to buy up every Erie share on the market, the supply suddenly became endless. Reason: Jim Fisk had set up a press to turn out fake stock certificates. Vowed Fisk: "If this printing press don't break down...
Senator Butler's campaign treasurer, Baltimore Attorney Cornelius P. Mundy, was one witness who disagreed with Tankersley. Said Mundy: the composite picture was "stupid, puerile and in bad taste...
...Chicago, Don Gehrmann, the Banker's Mile in 4:09.7, over FBI-man Fred Wilt. The show-stopper in the Chicago Daily News relays: the Rev. Bob Richards' pole-vault of 15 ft. 4¾ in., his highest yet, but still three inches short of Cornelius Warmerdam's world record. ¶ At Kansas City, Hamline University, the small college National Intercollegiate (N.A.I.B.) basketball championship, from James Millikin University, 69-61. ¶ At Paris, Canada over Sweden, 5-1, for the world amateur ice hockey title...
...West Palm Beach driving range photographers paused to take some action pictures of lean, wiry old Connie (Cornelius McGillicuddy) Mack. At 88, still limber as a pitcher's glove and lean-flanked as a rookie outfielder, "Mr. Mack" had decided to improve his golf game. With a little coaching, he was already smashing out 175-yard drives, had plenty of time, having closed out a half century as manager of his Philadelphia Athletics (Connie Mack, president) to learn the finer points of the short pitch and the downhill putt...