Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dauber's victory was worth $51,875 and brought his 1938 winnings to $69,175. second only to those,of Stagehand. Owner Du Pont already had a neat profit on the chestnut colt he bought from Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney...
Sing Sing Prison officials let it be known that Gertrude Sheldon Whitney had visited her husband, Richard Whitney, three times since his two-week probation ended on April...
...Federation of Teachers and Progressive Education Association held a national conference in Washington, brought together college presidents, educators, Congressmen and 25 labor and farm organizations, which unanimously endorsed the bill. United in demanding its passage were A. F. of L., C. I. O., the railroad brotherhoods. Said A. F. Whitney, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen: "The Harrison-Fletcher Bill is must legislation...
Among the private collections drawn upon, notable were those of : Mrs. Rockefeller, whose U. S. primitives supplied such beauties as Edward Hicks's Residence of David Twining; Sportsman John Hay Whitney, who lent Whistler's Wapping on Thames; Financier Stephen C. Clark, who lent Homer's Croquet; Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss; Financier Sam A. Lewisohn; Marshall Field; Edsel B. Ford; Manhattan Architect Philip L. Goodwin; Mrs. Stanley Resor of Manhattan and Robert Hudson Tannahill of Detroit. All except Mrs. Bliss and Mr. Tannahill are trustees of the Museum of Modern Art; but Mr. Bliss is a trustee...
...election last week as New York Stock Exchange governors were 27 out & out reformers, a complete change from the "Old Guard" whose long rule reached a climax two months ago in the Richard Whitney scandal. This revolution in the most capitalistic organization in the U. S. drew 924 members to the polls, a record. Since the reform slate was unopposed, those die-hards who wished to show disapproval had only one way to do so: by scratching names off the ballots. The man whose name was scratched most-163 times-was shock-haired Broker Paul Vincent Shields of Shields...