Word: kissam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emergency. For the guests at Lynnewood Hall last week included not just a dozen or so millionaires but at least 100 of the country's richest men. Among those who broke bread with the Master of the Hall that night were Harvey Samuel Firestone, Frank A. Seiberling, William Kissam Vanderbilt, Sebastian Spering Kresge, Byron D. Miller (Woolworth), William Wallace Atterbury, Daniel Willard, Henry Latham Doherty, Joseph and Robert Graham, William Larimer Mellon, Col. Edward Howland Robinson Green (son of the late Hetty Green), Charles and William Fisher, Albert Russell Erskine, Frank Ernest Gannett, Bernard Gimbel, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis...
...congestion; in Paris. Born in New York, he made Knoedler & Co., his father's firm, one of the three most important (with Duveen Bros, and Durand-Ruel) in the U. S. He helped build the art collections of Andrew William Mellon, the late Peter A. B. Widener, William Kissam Vanderbilt, the late George Fisher Baker, Potter Palmer...
...Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, was bought by Frederick Henry-Prince, Boston banker, railroad tycoon, sportsman, owner of the racing yacht Weetamoe. "Marble House" was built in 1892, at a reputed cost of $8,000,000, as a birthday gift to Mrs. Belmont by her husband, the late William Kissam Vanderbilt, three years before she divorced him. It has been boarded up since...
...Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, onetime wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt, in Paris, following a para lytic stroke; Soprano Rosa Ponselle, in New Haven, Conn., following removal of fibroid tumor; King Camp Gillette, 77, razor tycoon, in Los Angeles...
...design represents an old English coach & four. For seal-sale publicity, rich, sporting William Kissam Vanderbilt did a thing he thoroughly enjoys. He dressed as a conventional coachman, mounted his coach Venture and tooled a spanking four-in-hand before newsreel cameras...