Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held in the Tombs without bail for trial. When a grand jury handed up an indictment and Mr. Dewey's office revealed that a series of complaints had swelled Agent Tinker's alleged pilferings to $100,000, other agents wondered whether their profession was to have a Whitney Case...
...authors are Daniel J. Boorstin '34, instructor in History and Literature, George Mayberry, instructor in English, and John B. Rackliffe '34, instructor in English. Among the sponsors are David Wight Prall, professor of Philosophy; Hassler Whitney, assistant professor of Mathematics; and Ernest J. Simmons, assistant professor of English...
...also was the suggestion that 65-year-old, weighty (216-lb.) Alexander Fell Whitney might become the overall head of U. S. Labor. White-topped, lively Mr. Whitney runs his rich Brotherhood with iron hand, vehemently opposes A. F. of L.'s proposed Wagner Act amendments, has no great love for David Robertson whom John Lewis also suggested for the biggest job U. S. Labor could offer. For fun Trainman Whitney keeps deer, rabbits, pigeons, a raccoon, lovebirds, canaries and pheasants, reads Tennyson, deluges the press with polished expositions of his views. Last week in Cleveland he agreed with...
Soon Woll & Co.-who would hardly welcome Mr. Whitney as a boss-had to reverse themselves and consider the Lewis proposal seriously. Franklin Roosevelt startled them with the news that Teamster Dan Tobin had agreed to rejoin their committee. Having first refused to serve as an A. F. of L. negotiator because he thought William Green's terms precluded peace (TIME, March 13), Dan Tobin returned 'to the committee in effect as a representative of Franklin Roosevelt, giving C. I. 0. a friend on A. F. of L.'s side of the table...
...fifty but his qualifying time of 55.4 was too slow to place him in the finals. Yale Captain Johnny Good took the final in the fine time of 52.7, eclipsing the meet record of 53 flat set by Charlie Hutter last year, and thus ending his career in Payne Whitney Pool with his best time...