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Shrewdness was unnecessary. He continued, in all his business relations, a policy of lofty deference. Money could not alter his fibre; it merely offered him an opportunity to show his principles. He gave enormously to schools, churches, hospitals. When Vanderbilt University renounced Methodism to get a million dollars from Andrew Carnegie, he gave $2,000,000 to start the University of Atlanta. "The work of higher education," he said, "is not going to be surrendered to secularism. . . . To that Church at whose altars I receive the Christian gospel and sacraments, upon which surely I depend, I may safely entrust...
...DESTINY-Arthur D. Howden Smith-Brentano's ($2.50). Here are history, fiction, and destiny jumbled on a scale which D. W. Griffith would call a "spectacle." One Peter Ormerod, fresh from Harvard, a successful Manhattan lawyer, goes to California in 1855 in behalf of his client, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Now Peter is often called "ugly" by his author, but he has steel in his biceps, adventure in his red corpuscles. In California where playboys dent the bars with their nuggets, he meets the "doctor- lawyer-journalist-soldier -states-man," William Walker, the original "manifest destiny" man, who believes that...
Married. Helen Manning Brown, great-great-granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; to Herbert Dudley Hale of Boston, grandson of the late Edward Everett Hale, author of The Man Without a Country, at St. James...
Divorced. Captain Charles Nungesser, French ace who had brought down 83 enemy planes, who had been wounded 17 times, who had lost an arm, a leg, a chin; by Mrs. Consuelo Hatmaker Nungesser, daughter of the onetime confidential secretary to Cornelius Vanderbilt; at Paris. She charged "incompatibility."† In 1923, romantic patriots pointed with pride to a double wedding at Dinard, France, where Miss Hatmaker, 19, married Ace Nungesser; where her mother married Capt. William Waters...
...MANIFEST DESTINY-Arthur D. Howden Smith-Brentano's ($2.50). General Walker, filibuster, versus Commodore Vanderbilt, pirate...