Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hara and Rhett Butler has stirred controversy in U.S. bars, drawing rooms and dinner tables. Actually tested for the role of Scarlett O'Hara were such various charmers as Tallulah Bankhead, Paulette Goddard, a typist named Margaret Tallichet, a manicurist named Arleen Whelan and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, wife of Mr. Selznick's backer. Mentioned for it were so many other actresses, obscure or celebrated, that Variety cracked that, if all of them attended the premiere, the picture would pay expenses in one performance. Playwright Clare Booth wrote a comedy (Kiss the Boys Goodbye) on the subject, scheduled...
...build up its collection the company plans to spend $100,000 a year, most of which will doubtless be put up by Board Chairman Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. President of Marine Studios, Inc. is W. Douglas Burden, trustee of the American Museum of Natural History; vice president, Count Ilia Tolstoy, grandson of the famed Russian novelist...
...they came, class after class, holding aloft such jibes as The moribund life, How red the Roose, Richard Whitney, Franklin Roosevelt, Putzi Hanfstaengel-All good Harvard men-you can have them. Conspicuous was the class of '28, dressed as Snow White (9-year-old Class Baby Barbara Chase) and the 200 Dwarfs, because it carried no anti-Roosevelt placards. The class of '18, originally planning to play John Barleycorn in barrels, at the last moment added top hats and spats and called themselves Economic Royalists. A HARVARD MAN, said one of their signs, DID THIS...
...moved the Stock Exchange's Acting President William McChesney Martin Jr. and the "Reform" party. Their new brooms are sweeping out the "Old Guards" of ex-President Charles R. Gay who were uncompromising toward SEC. Roland Redmond, senior Carter, Ledyard partner, was a great & good friend of Richard Whitney, an Old Guardsman who at present languishes in Sing Sing.* Last week, Mr. Martin & partisans made the sweep complete. In brief routine announcement that went almost unnoticed by the press they announced that the Exchange had a new tribe of lawyers: Milbank, Tweed & Hope...
Convict Richard Whitney, onetime (1910) member of Harvard's varsity crew, onetime (1930-35) President of the New York Stock Exchange, in a game at Sing Sing, played first base for the prison's "school team," batted .667 in three times at bat, made no errors, stood a chance of promotion to the prison varsity...