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...their hands on the Whitney estate, heirs had to pay state taxes of $9,513,000. Principal beneficiaries were his widow Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; his daughters (Mrs. Flora Whitney Miller and Mrs. Barbara Whitney Henry); his son Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney who got the largest share and is currently active in aviation, technicolor movies and other businesses...
...four important races which Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's three-year-old Cavalcade had won up to last week, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Discovery had been second. Whether the misfortune of racing against a horse whom experts last week were comparing to Man o' War was an insuperable obstacle was what Mr. Vanderbilt wanted to learn when he entered Discovery in the Arlington Classic at Chicago last week...
...moment, it looked as if his stubborn faith in his entry might be justified. Cavalcade was loping along in third place when Discovery popped out in front of the field going into the stretch. The flash of the Vanderbilt silks seemed the signal for which the Kentucky Derby winner had been waiting. Cavalcade began his famed finishing spurt, took a few long strides. won as he pleased. Four lengths behind, hard pressed by Hadagal, Discovery took second place...
...Manhattan businessmen, financiers and politicians over the route. At one point where their special train was going at only 5 m.p.h., the hose of the air brakes broke and stopped the train instanter. President Williamson's chair leg broke, spilling him on the floor. William Kissam Vanderbilt landed on his nose. Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times careened against his august neighbors. Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, who was along "to take care of my biggest taxpayer," tottered. Arthur S, Tuttie, New York State engineer for Federal public works, went through the observation car's glass door...
Died. Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough, 62, of an intestinal disorder; in London. In 1895 he married Consuelo Vanderbilt; in 1926, five years after her divorce from the Duke and her marriage to Jacques Balsan. Consuelo Vanderbilt applied to the Rota for an annulment of the earlier marriage on the grounds that she had been coerced into it by her mother, the late Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont. The annulment was granted; Protestant ministers throughout the land objected acrimoniously. The Marquess of Blandford, 36. eldest son of the Duke and Consuelo Vanderbilt, inherits the title...