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...filly Top Flight. Her winnings-$219,000-were a world's record for two-year-olds. Top Flight was a favorite for this week's Kentucky Derby until last week when, in her first race of the season, the Wood Memorial at Jamaica, she finished fourth. Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney withdrew Top Flight from the list of Derby entrants...
...onetime assistant U. S. Attorney, ran for New York District Attorney in 1929. James Roosevelt, 25, onetime Harvard student, son of New York's Governor, campaigns for his father in Massachusetts, is pledged to him as a Democratic delegate in Chicago next June. No political family are the Vanderbilts, but William Henry Vanderbilt, 30, onetime Princeton student, is president of the Rhode Island Senate. Last week James Simpson Jr., 27, son of Marshall Field's board chairman, was nominated for Congress in the Illinois Republican primaries (see n. 19). Joseph Clark Baldwin III. 35, Harvard 1920, New York...
...lawyer, onetime partner of the late De Lancey Nicoll; of pneumonia; in La Quinta, Calif. With Nicoll he represented the (old) American Tobacco Co. when the Federal Government dissolved it for violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Other clients: the Henry M. Flagler estate, James A. Stillman, Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, the New York Giants...
...railroads, where the division between operating and financial management is sharp, the president is almost always an oldtime railroad man?viz. Pelley, Baldwin, Williamson, Budd. Storey. Rail chairmen are usually bankers or lawyers. Robert S. Lovett of the U.P. was its counsel for five years. Financier Harold Stirling Vanderbilt heads the C. & N. W. as chairman, just as Financier Arthur Curtiss James heads Western Pacific...
Married Seward Webb Pulitzer, son of Ralph Pulitzer, grandson of the late great Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, great-great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; and Billie Boldemann, of San Mateo, Calif.; in Manhattan...