Word: vanderbilt
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...long way from the social prestigiousness of the 1880s, when Louis Keller is said to have compiled the first edition of the Social Register largely by culling the National Horse Show Association membership list. Its first site was a dismal railroad terminal, which William K. Vanderbilt bought and later converted for the use of the newly formed National Horse Show Association. On the first opening night, in 1883, urchins ran conducted tours of the upper-crusted boxes for a quarter a throw, while the elite thrilled to races between fire engines and competitions between mounted policemen in stopping runaway horses...
...Heineman riffled through mounds of letters from his commuters urging him to hold fast, the telegraphers dug in for a long siege. At that point, the liberal Milwaukee Journal was reminded of the arrogant legacy of one of U.S. railroading's 19th century buccaneers, William H. Vanderbilt. Hooted the Journal: "It is now. the railroad telegraphers who say, 'The public be damned...
Sopwith, famed stunt flyer, hydroplane racer and aircraft builder (his World War II Hurricanes held off the German Luftwaffe), whose Endeavors twice challenged for the cup, lost in 1934 only by the narrowest of margins-four races to two-to Harold S. Vanderbilt's Rainbow...
...joined in allegorical dances and virgins herded unicorns beside an unruffled sea. His work had become vastly popular with the public, and Davies' support for the Armory Show was proportionately influential. He rallied a group of wealthy, art-minded New Yorkers (including his own patronesses. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan and Miss Lizzie P. Bliss), organized a foraging trip to Europe to bring back the best of modern...
From the days of Commodore Vanderbilt and J. P. Morgan through such recent victims as U.S. Steel's Roger Blough, many big businessmen have shown at crucial moments a surprising inability to influence-or even to gauge-the public mind. Last week another businessman, Clarence Randall, 71, retired chairman of Chicago's Inland Steel Co., offered his own explanation. Wrote Randall in the New York Times Magazine: "Responsibility breeds isolation . . . After an executive reaches the very top, he is seldom seen in public and seldom heard. He becomes a myth." The result is "that when the great storm...