Word: vanderbilt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, May 10, p. 20, you published an article on the financial difficulties of young Cornelius Vanderbilt's newspapers, in which the following sentence occurs: "Ever since a bullet-headed, thick-jowled Vanderbilt stood with arms folded in front of his hearth and said: 'The public? Bah! The public be damned...
Your ignorant "Press" editor ought to be more familiar with the history of the press. There wasn't any "hearth." There was a private car in the Michigan Central yards in Chicago. In it William H. Vanderbilt was dining with some friends when an offensive young reporter, Clarence Dresser (who was I believe a brother of Theodore Dreiser), forced his way in demanding an interview. Mr. Vanderbilt did not want to see him but the reporter persisted. Finally Mr. Vanderbilt told him to wait till he had finished eating. The reporter could not be stopped: "But it is late...
...Then Mr. Vanderbilt rose up in his wrath and shouted: "The public be damned! You get out of here...
...York harbor last week with distinguished company aboard. Inventor Herr Anton Flettner of Kiel, Germany, explained as best he could to Inventor John Hays Hammond Jr., Manufacturer Walter P. Chrysler, Naval Architect Frederick Hoyt, Yachtsman Caleb Bragg, Shipbuilder Homer L. Ferguson, Financiers E. T. Irving, Harold Vanderbilt, Percy Rockefeller, and many another, what it was that drove the ship, whose Diesel motors lay idle, past harbor tugs, slow tramps and barges at an eight-knot clip. His guests scrutinized the Baden-Baden's two whirling towers of iron, 65 feet high and ten feet through, and tried to realize...
...assistants, all members of the Junior Class; are Alexander Johnston Cassalt, of Rosemont, Pa,; Clement Duane Coady, of West Newton; Frederick Vanderbilt Field, of Lenox; Sarell Everett Gleason Jr., of Evanston, III Courtland Sherrington Gross, of West Newton; Ellsworth Charles Haggerty, of Allston; Nathaniel Hamlen, of Boston; Joseph Delano Hitch, of Denver, Col.; Bayard Livingston Kilgour, of Cincinnati, Ohio; and Henry Sewall Woodbridge, of Brookline...