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...public? Bah! The public be damned . . ." snorted bullet-headed Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt many years...
...great-great-grandson, Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, a gangling 26-year-old youth in 1924, set out to pander to the public by founding three tabloid newspapers, against the wishes of his family. He used on his masthead the phrase: "The public be served." Within two years, his tabloids (in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami) went bankrupt (TIME, May 10, 1926, et seq.]. Vanderbilt IV then functioned as special writer for the Hearst New York Mirror, appealed to the masses with sneering remarks about his family's plutocratic mansion on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan...
After less than five minutes the demonstration was weakening when, to the rescue, in struggled tall young William H. Vanderbilt of Rhode Island with a thin, rectangular object some eight feet long and five feet wide...
There will be a meeting of the Alumni Association of the Medical School at luncheon in Vanderbilt Hall next Wednesday at 12 o'clock. The list of speakers for the occasion, formed of members of the Faculty and prominent graduates, will be announced later...
...slender, well-dressed young gentleman with the Rhode Island delegation will be William H. Vanderbilt, Newport society man, lately sued for divorce...