Word: vanderbilting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bank sends the doctor's check to the tailor and the tailor's check to the doctor and everyone is happy. Manhattan businessmen living in Scarsdale have chartered the bank with capital & surplus of $400.000. Active in the organization has been Oscar F. Banse, treasurer of Vanderbilt Hotel Corp...
William Kissam Vanderbilt, pausing last week at Malaga, Spain, on his round-the-world yachting trip, gave a too large check to a Malaga merchant. Honest, the tradesman offered change. The Vanderbilt answer, as reported by the New York Times: "Keep the change, and the microbes with...
...foreign visitors will be the guests, while in this country, of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Those who desire it will be given accommodations in the Freshman Halls in Cambridge and in Vanderbilt Hall of the Medical School...
Greatest anarch of his time was Jacob ("Jake") Volk, wrecker of Delmonico's, Vanderbilt homes, Chemical National Bank, et al., whose highest ambition, to wreck the Woolworth Building, remained unfulfilled at his death last month (TIME, March...
Other articles were by Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney and George M. Pynchon Jr., two of the East's more advanced amateurs. Royal Dixon, imaginative naturalist, exposed the flight methods of eagles, kites, pelicans and buzzards. The tenor of the whole magazine was calculated to encourage more people to buy more planes, to make the grass grow green upon the lawns of aviation country clubs. In the West, where amateur flying is already pretty much a matter of course, The Sportsman Pilot may seem precious. In the East it should help the air to become fashionable and populous...