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Married. Alice Szechenyi, daughter of Count Laszlo Szechenyi, Hungarian Minister to the U. S. and Countess Szechenyi who was Gladys, daughter of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt; and Count Bela Hadik, son of Count John Hadik, who, once Hungarian premier, is now a member of the upper house of the Hungarian Parliament; in Washington, D. C.; by Most Rev. Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi, Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., who concluded the service by reading a cablegram from His Holiness Pope Pius XI blessing the couple "as a pledge of heavenly favor...
...nation had lost its Speaker but there would be others; a multitude of people, high and low, had lost a charming friend who could not be replaced. The range of his friendships was reflected in the long list of honorary pallbearers, including William ("Wild Bill") Donovan and Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr., Joseph Leiter and Efrem Zimbalist, Will Rogers and Clarence Mackay, Albert Lasker and Percy Rivington Pyne...
...called upon Fox's shareholders to elect six new directors. At the head of the list was Banker Wiggin, director of a myriad of mighty companies, also of less prosperous ones such as American Woolen, Armour & Co., International Agricultural Corp. Proposed to stand beside him were General Cornelius Vanderbilt, whose directorships include Chase National Bank, Illinois Central Railroad, and Saratoga Association for the Improvement of the Breed of Horses; Phillip Ream Clarke, president of Central Trust Co. of Illinois; Frank Overton Watts, chairman of First National Bank in St. Louis; George Monroe Moffett, vice president of Corn Products Refining...
Lloyd's, the London insurance corporation famed for willingness to write a policy on anything, upped its rates last week on insurance against twins. Reason for the upping, according to a Lloyd's spokesman, was Mrs. William H. Vanderbilt's recent success in finding out by means of X-ray that she would have twins- (TIME, Feb. 16). Hereafter Lloyd's will ensure against twins, triplets or other multiple births at the new high rate only if a policy is sought in earliest stages. "Much of our business of this character," said Lloyd's spokesman...
Said Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. who, with his wife, was the first "outsider" to fly in the Sky Car: "Bill Stout told us it would become but a matter of two or three hours for anyone who drove an automobile to learn to fly [the plane]. . . . Speed is 100 m. p. h. You can get 24 miles to the gallon of gasoline and stay in the air nearly five hours with a tank full. It will first sell in the neighborhood of $1,500; and might be purchased within a few months for less than...