Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parliamentary Dissolution of 1629", Professor Whitney, Harvard...
...Both Guaranty Trust and National Bank of Commerce have connections with the House of Morgan, with the Morgan influence especially strong in Guaranty Trust. It was the late great Morgan Partner Henry P. Davison, who, in 1909, began Guaranty's period of swift expansion. Thomas W. Lamont and George Whitney are present Guaranty Morganites. President of Guaranty Trust is blond William Chapman Potter, onetime mining engineer; Chairman of its Board is swarthy Charles Hamilton Sabin, onetime Massachusetts farm-boy. They are brothers-in-law, their wives being daughters of the late Paul Morton, Roosevelt's Secretary of the Navy...
...great designer of radial air-cooled engines is Charles L. Lawrence, now president of Wright Aeronautical Corp. There are no patents on the basic design, so more than a dozen U. S. motormakers are producing them. Most famed are the Wright Whirlwind* and Cyclone, Pratt & Whitney Wasp and Hornet, Warner Scarab...
Especially after his engagement to Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow's daughter Anne (TIME, Feb. 25), the rumor grew that President-Elect Hoover would give Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh a sub-Cabinet job. The rumor vexed Mr. Hoover. Perhaps that was a reason for Col. Lindbergh's unexpected appointment last week by Secretary Whiting to be technical adviser to the aeronautical branch of the Department of Commerce...
Today is the closing date for the receipt of applications for the Josiah Dwight Whitney Scholarship; for Fellowships and Scholarships; for 1929-30, in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and in the Law School; for the Bullard Fellowships and the Moseley Travelling Fellowships; and for receiving, from men intending to study in the graduate or professional schools of the University, applications for the first assignment of the Bright, Daniel A. Buckley, Charles Downer, Parker, Frederick E. Parlin, Charles Elliot Perkins, Princeton, James A. Rumrill, Stoughton, and 1902 World War Memorial Fellowships and Scholarships...