Word: vanderbilts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fortnight ago Central's President Gustav Metzman called Young to ask if he could come and see Young at his winter home in Palm Beach. Neither Metzman nor Central's Chairman Harold S. Vanderbilt had to be told that Young's Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. had become by far the largest single owner of Central's stock. C. & O.'s holdings, which were reported at 315,000 shares, were now up to 400,000, about 7% of all shares outstanding. Vanderbilt and Metzman went to Palm Beach...
...going to divorce Porfirio Rubirosa (who used to be Dominican charge d'affaires in Vichy) to marry her third, Actor Pierre Louis. When Husband Porfirio paid her a visit, "I made known to him my intention . . ." said she. "He accepted like a gentle-man." Plump, greying Columnist Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 48, whose first, second and third marriages lasted, respectively", seven, three and six years, was now separated, after something less than six months, from beauteous Maria Feliza Pablos, 29-year-old grandniece of Mexico's late President Porfirio Diaz...
...tracks, its 119,208 employes, its 139,278 locomotives and cars? Well, if the Central wanted to prove that it wasn't, everyone was sure that there would be the roughest, toughest, brass-knuckledest fight since the throat-cutting days of Robber Barons Fisk, Gould and old Commodore Vanderbilt...
Help from Aunt Janes. Among the Central's widely held stock, Young's Alleghany block was bigger than anyone else's (even Central's Board Chairman Harold S. Vanderbilt, great-grandson of the Commodore, held only about 60,000 shares). And Bob Young was a specialist in rallying small stockholders behind him ("Aunt Janes," he calls them). To the Aunt Janes-and the Uncle Jims-tired of being bumped around in rattletrap coaches, Bob Young appeared to be a streamlined Galahad on wheels. To fellow railroad men, whom he has unceasingly denounced in magazine articles, full...
...Chairman Vanderbilt gave him trouble, Bob Young thought he could take care of him. Said he: ''He's a good friend of mine, but in this business he's a mere child." As for Morgan, Stanley, which Bob Young persists in calling the Morgan crowd, although they have no direct connection with the bank, he snorted:'"If they start another fight they ought to have their heads examined. If I can't get along with these fellows this time, I'll make a twentieth-rate bank out of the Morgan bank...