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Last week, just as the fuss over Major General Smedley Darlington Butler's "Mussolini Speech" had nearly died away. up popped Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr. in Los Angeles. Mr. Vanderbilt stated that it was he who had supplied the rambunctious General with the anecdote of Il Duce's alleged hit & run motor drive, for relating which the General was reprimanded by the Navy Department (TIME, Feb. 9; 16). But the imaginative young publicist was very wroth because General Butler "took a story of mine, twisted it around to score a point for himself, and made me the goat...
...child was killed, and Il Duce's comment was:"What is one life in the affairs of a state?" The point of the two versions seemed much the same and, in any case, General Butler's lawyer could not recall that he had ever mentioned the Vanderbilt name in connection with the story. But the onetime tabloid publisher spoke of suing General Butler, hinted darkly of the revelations he might make...
...Rome the Foreign Office wearily reiterated that Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. had never ridden in a motor car with Benito Mussolini...
...pace with preobstetrical reports upon couples in every stratum of society. Last week, as casually as if it were mentioning the departure of a socialite for Palm Beach, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis' polite New York Evening Post headlined: BIRTH OF TWINS EXPECTED BY MRS. WM. H. VANDERBILT...
...William Henry Vanderbilt, Republican National Committeeman, Rhode Island State Senator, son of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, who was the great-grandson of famed Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt...