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United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses (1794-1877)
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vanderbilt
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Population (2000): 587 Housing Units (2000): 269 Land area (2000): 1.106206 sq. miles (2.865059 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.106206 sq. miles (2.865059 sq. km) FIPS code: 81700 Located within: Michigan ...
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Vanderbilt is a surname, and may refer to: Amy Vanderbilt (1908-1974), American authority on etiquette, distant relative of the Vanderbilt family Arthur T. Vanderbilt (1888–1957), noted American attorney, legal educator, and proponent of court modernization, ...
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Vanderbilts and the Astors--and in the homes of culture and refinement everywhere, and let him judge for himself.
Commodore Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, or even Bet-A-Million Gates for grifting their way to fame and fortune.
Johns Hopkins was founded by a millionaire merchant, and millionaires Cornelius Vanderbilt, Exra Cornell, James Duke, and Leland Stanford created universities in their own names.
Jan told us South Shore got the idea to fund artisans who were skilled but not creditworthy by conventional standards from the work of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, founded by Muhammad Yunus, who had studied economics at Vanderbilt University before going home to help his people.
But Libby left Ballston within a matter of weeks, to take the job with the Vanderbilts in New York.
The artifacts recovered by NUMA (sorry, no silver) were donated to the Vanderbilt Museum in Centerport, Long Island, for display to the public.
You are not a Vanderbilt, whose fortune was made by a vulgar tugboat captain, or a Rockefeller, whose wealth was amassed through unscrupulous speculations in crude petroleum.
He went on for a while, spinning yet another identity for himself -- a sort of diamond in the rough Commodore Vanderbilt type, straight-talking and mean as a snake.
Gore failed out of divinity school and dropped out of law school at Vanderbilt University.
This small volume contains the Shaffer Lectures which I delivered in October 1951 at Yale University Divinity School and the Cole Lectures, delivered at Vanderbilt University in November 1951.
We may want to keep up with the Joneses -- but not with the Vanderbilts.
We may want to keep up with the Joneses - but not with the Vanderbilts.
In ways I do not think Amy Vanderbilt would have approved: first, I blame the faint cavalier tone of adolescent sexism in this story--however innocent and moronically slaphappy it may be--on Huck.
The Vanderbilt Mutual Fund and the Provident Fund refuse to invest in liquor or tobacco shares.
Ehhif screamed and ran in all directions—out into the Graybar and Hyatt passages, out onto Forty-second Street, up the stairs to the Vanderbilt Avenue exit—as the saurians charged across the marble floor, and their shrieks of rage and hunger echoed under the high blue sky.