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...public unreasonably high rates for sleeping car service; 3) forced railroads to pay unreasonably high prices for rolling stock; 4) prevented the roads from using lightweight, streamlined equipment made by competitors. Caught in the suit's 80-page web were Pullman Directors J. P. Morgan, Harold S. Vanderbilt, Richard K. Mellon, Alfred P. Sloan Jr., George Whitney, others-as potent a list of defendants as ever graced a civil action. (Since the Government, through reports filed with ICC, has long been aware of the practices to which it is objecting, Trustbuster Arnold considered a civil action "more appropriate" than...
Goaded into action last week by World War II was a motley assortment of U. S. citizens: Tall, well-dressed Governor William H. Vanderbilt of Rhode Island, 38, one of the youngest men to enlist in the Navy during World War I, reported in Washington for a two-week tour of duty with the Naval Reserve...
...Manchester, Vt., over the picturesque Ekwanok Country Club course, campus golfers from 30 colleges teed up in the 41st annual tournament for the Intercollegiate Golf Championship. Among the 145 contestants were a Vanderbilt and Walter Hagen Jr. But the names of most of America's top-flight college golfers were unfamiliar to U. S. galleries...
Many are the newly-registered racing silks, notably those of New York Racing Commissioner John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, who started his stable of jumpers last year; Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, enter prising young president of Belmont; and Hollywood's Cinemagnate Louis...
Died. Anne Harriman Sands Rutherford Vanderbilt, 76, dowager socialite, daughter of Railroad Tycoon Oliver Harriman, follower of Cultist Oom the Omnipotent; of double pneumonia; in Manhattan. Her first husband, Sportsman Samuel Stevens Sands, was killed riding to hounds in 1889; her second, Racquet Champion Louis Morris Rutherford, died in 1892; her third, Yachtsman William Kissam Vanderbilt, died...