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...much more than a year ago (TIME, Feb. 25, Mar. 3, 1924, THE CONGRESS) when Banker Frank A. Vanderlip startled the country with hints of scandal when he spoke of the "strange" circumstance of two "unknown" young men acquiring ownership of The Marion Star from President Harding. The two "unknowns," Roy D. Moore and Louis H. Brush, sued him for libel. The case was recently settled out of court...
Divorced. Kathleen Howard, famed contralto of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Manhattan, from Lawyer K. Baird, onetime associate with Otto H. Kahn, Thomas W. Lament, Frank A. Vanderlip, Alvin W. Krech, in the short-lived Century Opera Company; in Manhattan...
...voluntary witness, A. L. Fink, of Rochester, N. Y., declared: "I am the man to whom Frank Vanderlip tried to give $1,000 for perjured testimony against President Coolidge." Senator Brookhart replied: "We 'don't want your lies!" And Senator Ashurst told Fink he was a "crook...
...Frank A. Vanderlip decided to give a Japanese garden party at Beechwood, Scarborough-on-the- Hudson, for the benefit of Tsuda College, destroyed by the Japanese earthquake. They wanted to invite Secretary Hughes and Ambassador Hani-hara. So they martialed a flock of carrier pigeons and the 102nd Aviation Squadron of the National Guard at Staten Island, to deliver a message to each of these distinguished diplomats. Lieutenant J. Kendrick, of the Aviation Squadron, was equipped with a Curtiss plane-familiarly known as a "Jenny," powered with a 100-horsepower engine and capable of 70 to 75 miles an hour...
...precedent having been set, other corporations followed suit. Mr. Vanderlip has successfully resigned from the boards of the Union Pacific Railroad, the U. S. Rubber Co., Freeport Texas Co., and recently from the International Mercantile Marine Co. The Wall Street Journal suggested that Mr. Vanderlip is in a fair way to become "a man without a company...