Word: iv
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the news was spread: Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, aged 28, was in financial difficulties. His tabloid newspapers, the Los Angeles Illustrated Daily News (maximum circulation 214,000), San Francisco Illustrated Daily Herald (maximum circulation 135,000), the Miami Tab (only 18 months old) needed more money. He had sunk $100,000 of his own money. He had 5,000 fellow stockholders. He had borrowed $1,080,000 from his father. But he still needed $300,000 to put his papers on a paying basis?and his father would lend him no more. He tried to pledge his patrimony?...
...nearly half a century since "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt I departed this life, full of years and power, having amassed a fortune in ships and railroads and begat William Henry (1821-1885), who begat Cornelius II (1843-1899), who begat Cornelius III (1873?), who begat Cornelius IV (1898?), who took a wife in 1920 and is yet without issue...
...wealth of Cornelius I clung to the family through the generations, but Vanderbilt skill and dominance seems to have thinned. Here begins the story of Cornelius IV, fifth in the line of primogeniture. A chubby-featured boy with crisp curly hair, some thought they could discern in him an underlying physical frailty. He went to St. Paul's school with other sons of wealth. He got his higher education at Harstrom's Tutoring School. He went to France during the War in the Ambulance Service and was gassed, decorated...
...Cornelius IV was not press-shy. He got himself a job on the New York Herald Tribune as reporter. From there he went to the New York Times, and from there to Washington to free lance, until Publisher Hearst, whose gum-chewing public dotes on names like Vanderbilt, gobbled him up to write signed articles. There is evidence that the youth received lasting inspiration at the Hearstian knee, for his journalistic activities ever since have been in the gum-chewing field...
Fine Arts 4a, Professor Edgell, Robinson Hall, "Styles of Henry IV and Louis XIII...