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Acquitted last week after a trial before a federal judge in Washington: Frederick Field, left-wing scion of Cornelius Vanderbilt and longtime wealthy of U.S. Communism. The charge: contempt of Congress in refusing to an 32 questions put to him last spring by a Senate subcommittee. Field's defense: his answers, if made, would have to incriminate him. Score to date eight congressional contempt cases: six acquittals...
Drew was soon joined on the Erie board by Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, a slippery pair of Civil War profiteers and stock-market riggers. In 1866, the trio tangled with Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, who wanted to get control of the Erie because it competed with his New York Central, then pushing westward to Chicago. When Vanderbilt tried to buy up every Erie share on the market, the supply suddenly became endless. Reason: Jim Fisk had set up a press to turn out fake stock certificates. Vowed Fisk: "If this printing press don't break down...
...latest in a series of College moves to bring religion more heavily into the life of the undergraduate. For two successive years there have been week-long series of lectures on the Christian religion with supporting meetings in the Houses. This month Nels F. S. Ferre of Vanderbilt University conducted the program, and Reinhold Niebuhr may give the talks next year...
Religious education ought to be part of every college curriculum, Nels F. S. Ferre, Professor of Philosophical Theology at Vanderbilt, said last night...
...Prayer is absolutely necessary for a good life," Dr. Nels F. S. Ferre, Professor of Philosophical Theology at Vanderbilt, said last night...