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Married. Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, unsuccessful publisher who last fortnight announced plans to pay 3,000 stockholders for losses incurred through his tabloid news ventures (TIME, July 9) ; and Mrs. Mary Weir Logan ; in Reno, one half hour after Mrs. Vanderbilt had obtained a divorce from Waldo Hancock Logan, Chicago broker...
...great-great-grandson, Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, a gangling 26-year-old youth in 1924, set out to pander to the public by founding three tabloid newspapers, against the wishes of his family. He used on his masthead the phrase: "The public be served." Within two years, his tabloids (in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami) went bankrupt (TIME, May 10, 1926, et seq.]. Vanderbilt IV then functioned as special writer for the Hearst New York Mirror, appealed to the masses with sneering remarks about his family's plutocratic mansion on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan...
Critics have called Vanderbilt IV inefficient, disloyal, peevish, erratic, eccentric. Perhaps they were harsh, misinformed. For, last week, Vanderbilt IV, honest, put his signature to a document pledging more than $1,000,000 of his inheritance to repay stockholders of his dead tabloids. Said he: "I am giving up my heritage purely as a moral obligation. Legally, I no longer have any debts, but I wish to wipe the slate clean...
...family was fitted and welded, smoothed and polished, so was the Fortune. Little by little, Meyer Amschel wormed his way into the financial counsels of William IV, Elector of Hesse, until at length he held the strings of that ruler's considerable money bags. The needs of princes first, and later the needs of governments, were the opportunities of the Rothschilds. The wars of the Allies against Napoleon, the collection of the French indemnity, the efforts of Metternich to crush every outbreak of liberal ideas-all these required money. The Rothschilds provided it, at a profit...
...Emerson AGerman 21 Emerson AGovernment 19 Sever 30, 36History B New Fogg Lect. Rm.History 1Mr. Clark, 1, 29 New Lect. HallMr. Cram, 2, 36, Conf. group I Memorial HallMr. Dow, 3, 13, Conf. group II New Lect. HallMr. Durand, Conf. group III Harvard 6Mr. Evans, 5, 30, Conf. group IV Memorial HallMr. Gideonse, 7 Sever 13Mr. Gideonse, 37 Sever 14Mr. Gideonse, Conf. group V Sever 17Mr. Gratwick, 4, 15, 25 Harvard 5Mr. Jordan, 12, 17, Conf. group VI New Lect. HallMr. McDonald, 9, 28, Conf. group VII Geol. Lect. Rm.Mr. Scramuzza, 8, 18, Conf. group VIII New Lect. HallDr. Taylor...