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Word: whitney (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whitney-bred, Du Pont-owned Dauber, a grandson of famed Man o' War, was a thoroughly acceptable winner of last week's $69,000 Preakness Stakes, the toniest and richest race for three-year-old thoroughbreds this year. Purchased at the dispersal sale of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's famed stable last November, Dauber had not won a stake race this year for his new owner, William du Pont Jr., horsiest member of the Wilmington clan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Pimlico | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...nominations closed a month ago) and since Stagehand was not in condition to run, Dauber was a 3-to-2 favorite-chiefly because of his magnificent stretch run in the Kentucky Derby. Through the rain and mist, 25,000 dripping spectators watched Dauber start unostentatiously, as a well-mannered Whitney colt would be expected to do. But going into the backstretch, Dauber began to make a spectacle of himself-not in front, but trailing behind (in next to last place in the field of nine), ten lengths in back of the leaders, Menow and Fighting Fox. Gloom settled over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Pimlico | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

Runner-up was Cravat, a former stablemate of Dauber's in the Whitney string, who had been 20 lengths behind the leaders at the half-mile post, had made an equally astonishing stretch finish. Pace-setting Menow was third, Can't Wait fourth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Pimlico | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

Lawyer Mason's next revelation put SEC itself on the spot. Telling of a conference with Roland Redmond, counsel for the Exchange, a few hours before Richard Whitney & Co. was suspended. Lawyer Mason said: "Redmond said that the attitude of the SEC was that this situation should not be allowed to break and that a Commissioner Hanes was here in New York with the idea that the SEC was ready to cooperate, with the idea of continuing the firm in business for some time, with the idea that some orderly liquidation could be effected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Certainly Not | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Hustling to the stand, SECommissioner John W. Hanes was asked: "Was any suggestion ever made of delaying the charges against Richard Whitney or continuing his firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Certainly Not | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

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