Word: cornelius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor Philip Marshall Brown. Manhattan's Samuel Moor ("Sam") Shoemaker Jr., William Gilliland ("Bill Pickle"), onetime bootlegger to Penn State, Eton's Loudon Hamilton, Oxford's Canon Grensted. Author Russell naturally fails to mention such onetime Buchmanites as Princeton's Wilhelmus Bryan, Salem's Cornelius Trowbridge and Oxford's Murray Webb Peploe...
...William Cornelius Rogers, Oklahoma Democrat. Born at Bessie 33 years ago, he is a school teacher. Mistaken identity explains his election because he went before the electorate under the name of Will Rogers. Vainly his opponents pointed out that he was NOT the famed funnyman of Claremore, that not even his wife called him Will. His explanation: "I was named Willie but that's a girl's name, so I decided to use Will." Funnyman Rogers endorsed him: "He's shown more ingenuity already than any candidate I ever heard of. . . . This bird is smart. In fact...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney...
Bacon v. Whitney. Mrs. John Harlan Amen, daughter of Grover Cleveland, made a speech to help Democrat Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney in the 1st New York Congressional District. Nominee Whitney's grandfather served in Mrs. Amen's father's Cabinet as Secretary of the Navy. Meanwhile Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, wife of the Republican incumbent, campaigned for her husband among Long Island Italians in their own language...
...Democratic campaign fund grew. . . . Reports increased that his party managers did not expect him to win but were going to 'take care of him if Roosevelt won by giving him Trubee Davison's job [Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics] at Washington. . . . Young men with the political morals of Cornelius V. Whitney should not be welcomed to our public life. On the contrary, they should be firmly told to stay at home...