Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 37; and Betsey Gushing Roosevelt, 33; both for the second time; in Manhattan. Handsome, enthusiastic Jock Whitney, heir to a $27,000,000 trust fund, has been an art patron, six-goal polo player, owner of a famed racing stable, board chairman of Freeport Sulphur Co., backer of Gone With the Wind and stage hit Life With Father; he is now a dollar-a-year man with his friend Nelson Rockefeller's Committee on Inter-American Affairs. Married to Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus in 1930, he was divorced in 1940, paid a reported...
...Crimson insists on referring to ALCOA as a monopoly, it would seem only fair that it should add that a Federal Judge, Francis G. Caffey, after presiding over the anti-trust proceedings against the company, has ruled that it was not a monopoly, and thus allow the readers the opportunity of choosing their own authority. Roy Potter Perry...
...Evanston, Ill., last week a band of serious, middling-to-elderly ladies, the brain trust of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, clucked appreciatively over a Gallup poll on Prohibition sentiment. After eight years of Repeal, 36% of the Gallup-checked electorate said they were willing to try Prohibition once again...
...Frances Dodge Johnson, youngest (27) daughter of the late Motor Magnate John F. Dodge, won a court award of a $10,000,000 trust fund, after a two-year family fight. Father Dodge's will provided that $10 million go to her when she reached 25, but her halfbrother, John Duval Dodge, sued to break the will when he found it left him only $150 a month. Members of the family gave him a settlement...
...Patents on synthetic-rubber processes are no longer holding up the show. Thanks largely to nudges from the Department of Justice, on Dec. 19 all U.S. owners pooled their patents in Rubber Reserve Co.-including Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), whose Buna tire-rubber patents (obtained from the German Dye Trust) are the most promising...