Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge heard his support of commercial aviation praised by retired Major Lester D. Gardner, president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce. "You harmonized differences of opinion," said Major Gardner, "and replaced confusion with orderly discussion through the agency of the Aircraft Board under the chairmanship of Dwight Whitney Morrow...
Harry Payne Whitney, financier, sportsman, offered last week to give $750,000 to the American Museum of Natural History for the construction of a new wing to house collections of bird life, if and when New York City contributes an equal...
Died. Caspar Whitney, 64, author, editor, explorer (North and South Americas, India, Siam, Malay), onetime war correspondent (Cuba, Mexico, France); of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...Payne Whitney estate...
...earning quietly, are large blocks of Standard Oil of Indiana stock?the property of families of early Standard Oil partners, Harkness, Pratt, Brewster, Payne, Flagler, Rogers, etc. On these, Mr. Rockefeller Jr. confidently counts for support. S. H. B. Payne, however, came out for Col. Stewart. The Payne Whitney and Pratt estates remained doubtful, last week. The University of Chicago (object of many Rockefeller benefactions) was expected to use its 30,000 shares for the-good-of-the-family...