Word: cornelius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House executive wing and strode into the Cabinet room. He took his seat at the long, polished table, opened up his little tan leather dispatch case, waited for the conference to begin. At the table there were owlishly grave Treasury Secretary John Snyder, Acting Commerce Secretary Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, intelligence counselors and a brace of presidential aides. For the Defense Department also present were Under Secretary Steve Early, Navy Secretary Francis Matthews and General Omar Bradley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. And there was Harry Truman, as he had promised, presiding over...
Frederick Vanderbilt Field was news the day he was born, Apr. 15, 1905. He was a great-great grandson of Railroad Builder Cornelius Vanderbilt, marked by destiny and carefully drawn wills to be a man of wealth and solid respectability. But the tough, devoutly Republican old commodore was no model for Frederick Vanderbilt Field. Before his generation had begun to grow grey, Freddie Field had radically rewritten the family script...