Word: vanderbilt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard, 1871. Other potent members of that Class: the late Charles Joseph Bonaparte (Secretary of the Navy, 1904-06, Attorney General, 1906-09), the late Hamilton McK. Twombley (son-in-law of William K. Vanderbilt), Edward F. Whitney (J. P. Morgan interests...
Engagement Denied. Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, to Earl Smith of Manhattan, Yale student...
Died. Jacob H. Vanderbilt, 70, last of the second generation of financially prominent Vanderbilts; in Tacoma, Wash., of heart disease...
...chanted skeptical and disrespectful members of hoipolloi upon reading in the press last week that young Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and young Marshall Field had been elected to the board of directors of the Metropolitan Opera Company at a special stockholders' meeting. "Both," explained the stockholders, "are serious music lovers." It was this statement, more than the rather unusual honor, that irritated the chanting representatives of the vulgate. They themselves, in their innocent rhymes and naive ditties, displayed a fondnes for music which, they were keenly conscious, has never been recognized with a directorate in any company whatever. They definitely...
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, who recently succeeded Samuel W. Reyburn as a Director of the Guarantee Trust Company, is tall, muscular, pale-eyed, with a long neck and sloping shoulders which are the despair of tailors but which served him well at Yale (1922) where he pulled a good oar, dabbled in writing, discussed aesthetic topics with his instructors in a modest yet eager fashion. He has good taste in pictures, attends the opera regularly...