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With its captain and fullback, Nollie ("Papa'') Felts, permanently barred from varsity athletics because he once played professional baseball, Tulane, threatening to leave the Southern Conference at the season's end, managed to tie Vanderbilt in the rain...
...Paris. Born in New York, he made Knoedler & Co., his father's firm, one of the three most important (with Duveen Bros, and Durand-Ruel) in the U. S. He helped build the art collections of Andrew William Mellon, the late Peter A. B. Widener, William Kissam Vanderbilt, the late George Fisher Baker, Potter Palmer...
Country clubs were torn into factions, Yalemen turned against Harvardmen. Vanderbilts against Harrimans, horsemen against non-horsemen. Manhasset against Sagamore Hill in the ist Congressional District of New York last week. Even the several hundred thousand plain people inhabiting Long Island were aware that an unusual contest was being waged between curly-headed, soft-eyed Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny"') Whitney* and big. bluff Robert Low Bacon for the latter's seat in Congress. The opponents handled their campaigns with kid rather than loaded gloves, but each bestirred himself energetically. Democrat Whitney, his beauteous second wife, three station wagons, a touring...
...Since his nomination Mr. Whitney has asked his friends to drop the "Sonny" (too ingenuous), directed his office force to omit the Vanderbilt (too plutocratic...
...line was bought by New York Central in 1885. Legend is that when Commodore Vanderbilt first heard the asking price, he bellowed, "I would not pay that if the tracks were nickel plated." In 1916 control of the road was bought by Cleveland's hustling Van Sweringen Brothers. It was their first road and is today a key link in their railroad empire. Serving a rich territory, it prospered. In 1929 it borrowed $20,000,000 in three-year notes, using the proceeds to buy 53% of Wheeling