Vanderbilt
Americannoun
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Cornelius, 1794–1877, U.S. financier.
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Harold Stirling 1884–1970, U.S. business executive.
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Joel Dodge is the director of industrial policy & economic security at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026
The A.I. economy is even bigger than that, with far more investor and fund exposure in the works, and a worse-case crash could hit up to $20 trillion in household wealth, per the Vanderbilt report.
From Slate • May 15, 2026
And in an age when many steamboats, cheaply built and poorly maintained, did, in the words of one contemporary, “a wholesale business in human slaughter,” Vanderbilt never lost a ship to fire, explosion or shipwreck.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
Dr. Anna Morad, a pediatrician at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville, said she had witnessed a gradual rise in families refusing vitamin K leading up to the hospitalizations.
From Salon • May 7, 2026
Annie told me she heard that Mr. William Vanderbilt, the millionaire who’s paying Mr. Gorringe to bring Cleopatra’s Needle here, owns the railroad.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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