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Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. received from his father and mother a check for $1,000,000 to pay off the creditors of his defunct tabloid newspapers. One million, two hundred fifty-seven thousand dollars of his heritage was also released for him to repay persons who lost money in backing his papers. This means that he was completely reconciled with his father. Brig. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who had not approved of the newspaper ventures. After the family reunion, in Manhattan. Vanderbilt Jr. left for his ranch near Reno, Nev., to spend the holidays with his second wife, the former Mrs. Mary...
...initiative to quit, he would have had a conventional small command in the Civil War. As it happened, he was drifting from farmer pillar to salesclerk post, miserably deficient in supporting his family, scorned by relatives and Illinois townsfolk, when the war started. Grant decided he must repay the government for his free, if meager, education at West Point. For months his desultory applications for a command were ignored, but when the need for better generalship grew desperate, a trick of chance politics brought him to the crucial command in Tennessee...
...sister to the late Theodore Roosevelt, presented "a sum of money [contributed by the guests at the party] to the American Institute of Architects to establish a fund to enable French students of architecture to visit the United States to study the work done here, which will help to repay in a small way the generosity of the French Government to the many American students who have received their education, free of charge, at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris...
...beyond words. The Red Cross clerk insolently asked me "What do you want, chow?" I was so ashamed that I'd preferred to die." Now those people are sensitive, they have a little pride. When they give, they give their shirt; when they take they apologize and soon repay. I don't blame the Red Cross for this, but those stupid, insulting clerks they hire to distribute the provisions. If they know you they give you beans, and bacon, if you are stranger they refuse you and let you starve. This is the first letter she has ever...
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...