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...prosecution. Not one word has been uttered in even a feeble defense of me. And it must be obvious that there also is my side of the story. "When it is told in court, my judgment may be discredited, but certainly my honesty will be vindicated." The cutter bore the Insulls to Fort Hancock on the tip of Sandy Hook. They were motored under guard to Princeton Junction, N. J. and by 10 a. m. were aboard a westbound Pennsylvania train. Next day in Chicago, after being fingerprinted and suffering a slight heart attack, the Elder Insull was arraigned...
...price did not stop shrinking until it hit 3? per lb. early last year. Chief reason for the plan's failure was not Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover's inveighing against it but lack of cooperation by Dutch planters in the East Indies. The harder the British bore down on production, the faster the Dutch planted...
...Rolls-Royces were drawn up on the sidewalk in front of the Vanderbilt house so that Mrs. Whitney, Countess Széchényi and their brigadier brother might step quickly into them. On Fifth Avenue, curious crowds watched these and 14 other limousines sweep royally downtown. Three vans bore away the flowers, some of which earned Florists Wadley & Smythe $5,000. At South Ferry on the Battery the funeral procession rolled aboard two chartered ferryboats, to bear Mrs. Vanderbilt in her bronze casket across the same body of water on which "Commodore" Cornelius Vander Bilt, her illiterate grandfather...
...their science requirement can attest to the necessity of either revising or abolishing the present requisites. For the most part the science taken by those students who have no special interest in the field is only provocative of the slightest bit of scientific thinking and is definitely a bore to the uninterested student...
...Vanderbilt clan. In Newport Mrs. Vanderbilt built "The Breakers," the resort's No. 1 mansion; in Manhattan, with permission of the French Government a copy of the Chateau de Blois, razed from its Fifth Avenue & 57th Street corner seven years ago. Her calling cards read: "Mrs. Vanderbilt." She bore six children: Brigadier General Cornelius; Gertrude (Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney); Gladys (Countess Szechenyi); William Henry (died 1892); Alfred Gwynne, who died on the Lusitania; Reginald Claypoole (died...