Word: sportsmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Cornelius Vanderbilt ('"Sonny") Whitney, 32, son of the late Sportsman Harry Payne Whitney and inheritor of his racing stable, onetime husband of the present Mrs. William Averell Harriman; and Miss Gwladys Crosby Hopkins, beauteous daughter of the late Mark Hopkins Jr. of Boston and Mrs. Stevens Heckscher of Philadelphia, and niece of the Marquise de Polignac of Paris...
...system (Minneapolis) which crashed into receivership with the stockmarket in 1929. To his offices at No. 36 Wall Street, George Ohrstrom called help one night last week. There came : Richard Carley Hunt, utility-experienced member of the legal firm of Chadbourne, Hunt, Jaeckel & Brown; William Buchsbaum, utility executive and sportsman; and young, heavy-set Medley G. B. Whelpley, president of American Express Bank & Trust Co. As a reorganization committee (Mr. Hunt, chairman), they hoped to have an announcement to make by the middle of September, hoped the properties might continue to operate intact. The United States District Court of Delaware...
Through Manila's hot and malodorous streets last week passed a great gaudy parade for Philippine independence. Guest of honor, chief reviewer and actual agitator of the parade was a fleshy U. S. sportsman, Missouri's Democratic Senator Harry Bartow Hawes, author of a pending bill in Congress to free the islands.* He stood on the steps of Manila's Legislative Building to receive ovations, watch the fun. Beside him stood Nevada's Senator Key Pittman, many a Filipino official. For two hours Senator Hawes watched 50,000 natives file by-school children, college students, labor...
Most prominent of the defensive directors is Anthony Joseph Drexel ("Tony") Biddle Jr., fun-loving socialite-sportsman, more distinguished for social than commercial maneuvers. Divorced last March by Mrs. Mary L. Duke Biddle, who was left more than $50,000,000 by her father, the late Benjamin Newton Duke, brother of the late great Tobacco-Tycoon James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke, Mr. Biddle three months later married Mrs. Margaret A. Schulze, daughter of the late Mining- Tycoon William Boyce Thompson whose estate was valued at $85,000,000. Most prominent of Mr. Biddle's business ventures has been the development...
...with a Wright motor of only 220 h. p. The pilots: Reginald L. Robbins, a Texas farmboy who taught himself to fly several years ago and in 1929 took the endurance record away from the Army's Question Mark (TIME, June 3, 1929); and Harry S. Jones, bachelor sportsman and promoter who had handled the refuelling plane for that endurance flight. Practiced in the tricks of refuelling in midair, Robbins & Jones decided not to try to force an overloaded plane into the air for a straight dash across the ocean. Instead they would take off light, fly inland...