Word: fie
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...that he voted for Herbert Hoover in 1928. Son of the late sportsman Harry Payne Whitney, grandson of Cleveland's Secretary of the Navy, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney is 33. He pulled bow oar on Yale's varsity crew, was sued for breach of promise by a dancer after graduation. Fie inherited over one-quarter of his father's $77,000,000 estate. He chairmans the boards of Pan American Airways and Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co. He has two children by his first wife, Marie Norton, whose No. 2 husband is Poloist William Averell Harriman. His present wife, the former...
Foods, not tung oil. were Mr. Bennett's first interest. Fie was manager of Woolson Spice Co. when the Havemeyer interests bought it in 1899. He went into the brokerage business, then in 1907 organized F. H. Bennett Biscuit Co. At the time he had not heard of a tung tree, nor of the rich oil its walnut-like nuts yield. But in 1905 seeds for the first tung tree in the U. S. had been brought from Hankow and planted in the Department of Agriculture's experimental farm at Chico, Calif. In 1907 seeds were also planted...