Word: vanderbilt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frances Daley '27, of Andover, was elected President of the Student Council for the coming year last night at the first meeting of the new Council. The other officers are John Randolph Burke '27, of Milton, Vice-President, Henry Sewall Woodbridge '27, of Brookline, Secretary, Frederick Vanderbilt Field '27, of Lenox, Treasurer...
...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...
...Rachel Littleton came of no effete patroon line, though she did not mind marrying into one. Her father, Martin Wilie Littleton, is a lawyer of the very first rank and a self-made man every inch of the way. How much insistence and assistance from her lay behind young Vanderbilt's break from Hearst, his formation of the C-V Feature Service and later his beginnings of a grander venture, a chain of tabloid newspapers, doubtless young Vanderbilt himself could not say. Perhaps it was very largely her vigorous nature's impatience with any thing or man not standing...
...Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont is, so far as American women go, a great lady, a very great lady indeed. She divorced the late William K. Vanderbilt for his pleasures; she remarried; she gave money to help the poor. For many years her clear-hewn, masculine face, wearing, under a shock of cropped hair, few traces of the beauty that made her famous as a girl, has stared down charity committees; her voice, one of those feminine baritones that the years bring to great ladies who express themselves emphatically, has harangued women in clubs and men. Soon Mrs. Belmont is sailing...
Died. Oliver B. Harriman, 39, First Secretary to the U. S. Legation in Copenhagen, nephew of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Mrs. J. Borden Harriman and Mrs. Frederick C. Havemeyer, Harvard graduate ('09) ; at Copenhagen, of heart disease...