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...Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt and son of Harry Payne Whitney. A devoted Democrat, he lent the National Committee money when things were at their gloomiest. "Sonny" Whitney helped found and finance Pan American Airways, is board chairman of Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co. and president of Whitney Industries, Inc., a New York State lumbering company. Since the election, Whitney has been promoted from Assistant Secretary of the Air Force to Under Secretary of Commerce...
Married. Nancy Marie Whitney, 22, daughter of Under Secretary of Commerce Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and stepdaughter of ECA Ambassador W. Averell Harriman; and Edwin Dennison Morgan Jr., 28, working as copy boy on the New York Herald Tribune; in Arden...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, a Yale schoolmate, and at the time Pan Am's board chairman, teamed up with some directors against Trippe. They felt that Trippe was spending too much on new planes and routes, instead of on dividends. They shunted Trippe aside and Whitney took over. But Whitney was unable to take over the thousand & one details of Pan Am's far-flung operations which Trippe kept in his head...
FRESHMAN WRESTLING--Minor Numerals 1952--Edward B. Anderson, William A. Bernat, Tom J. Carroll, Thomas L. Carter, James S. Fleming, Cornelius D. Hastie, Elmer L. Johansen, Billy N. Joynor, Alexander K. Rupp, Alan F. Sawyer, Jr., Robert L. Wiley, Jr., Manager David B. Lamb
...Father Cornelius T. Sherlock, Diocesan Superintendent of Catholic Schools in Boston: The Reverend Charles W. Gilkey of the Andover Newton Theological School; and Rabbt Maurice L. Zigmond, director of B'uat B'rith Hillel Foundation, discussed the duties of missionaries and religious institutional workers along with the duties and responsibilities of community clergymen...