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Died. Cornelius Joseph Sullivan, 62, lawyer, onetime partner of the late De Lancey Nicoll; of pneumonia; in La Quinta, Calif. With Nicoll he represented the (old) American Tobacco Co. when the Federal Government dissolved it for violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Other clients: the Henry M. Flagler estate, James A. Stillman, Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, the New York Giants...
This canvas, valued at a million francs, had been presented to the town of Lyons many years ago by Cardinal Fesch, uncle of Napoleon, and subsequently had disappeared from sight. It was discovered by Mr. Harris and a British associate, Dr. Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey, among a pile of old rubbish in a small room in the Military School at Lyons, where it had lain unnoticed for half a century...
...Lancey for many years has devoted himself to researches on the great military painter and is at present preparing a book by which he hopes to place Casanova in his proper position among his contemporaries of the eighteenth century. Harris has recently been collaborating with him, and both were feted by the town of Lyons on the discovery. The two collectors have also been recommended to the French government for recognition...
...Most astounding intelligence!" to President J. Edward De Lancey of the Irvington (N. J.) Board of Education was the news that the 116 candidates for teaching positions in Irvington schools had all failed in an eligibility examination last month. Irvington needed 20 teachers. Robert Lee Saunders, superintendent of schools, sent notices to normal schools throughout the East. Came 114 young ladies, two young men, all properly quali- fied graduates, to take a five-hour test in spelling, punctuation and diction, grammar and composition, and arithmetic. All failed in the requirement: to pass all four sections with a grade...
...expelled for some "obscure"' cause. At 17 he shipped as a foremast hand in a Down Easter, next year got a commission in the Navy. But he saw no service in the War of 1812, for by then he had met and married Susan De Lancey, who "did not care to become the wife of a naval officer." Biographer Boynton comments: "The short of it is, he was the type of male who holds the strictest views about the subordinate position of woman-and is quite at her mercy...