Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is good entertainment in the two features, but one must sit through several reels of crude comedy, mediocre songs, and half-baked acting before being allowed to enjoy it. The dancing of Johnny Downs and Eleanor Whitney in "College Holiday" is top-notch, as are the anties of electrician Ben Blue. "Sing Me A Love Song" presents James Melton, who really can sing, and Patricia Ellis, who really can't act. But as a kleptomaniac who must have even stolen his name, it being Seigfried Hammerschlagg, Hugh Herbert steals all the good sequences of this picture...
...Stock Exchange, warning that "public protest" would follow the multiplication of such corporations as the Van Sweringen holding companies, for which Guaranty Co. underwrote and the Stock Exchange approved an ill-fated $30,000,000 bond issue that year (TIME, Jan. 25). Last week Senator Wheeler (delightedly confronted Richard Whitney, Depression president of the Stock Exchange, with a bigger and better memorandum by Mr. Hoxsey, written in 1926, and with Mr. Hoxsey himself...
...close study of all the systems, decided that Milton Work's was the best. When he saw the Culbertsons beat this system he suffered the pangs of the defeated. His forehead cupped with silver hair, tall, mild, bespectacled Mr. Hoxsey afforded Senator Wheeler a perfect contrast to Richard Whitney, who looks more like a rich broker than rich brokers usually look...
...Whitney's admission that he could not recall any Exchange discussions of the problem of listing holding company securities, nor had he read the 1926 Hoxsey memorandum on this subject which the Senator so admired. Mr. Whitney pointed out that this memorandum, written four years before he was elected Exchange president, had been a "confidential report" to the Committee on Stock List. Senator Wheeler was unappeased. Broker Whitney: "I really did quite a bit of work at the Exchange." Senator Wheeler: ''I must confess I am surprised...
Among the most valued paintings received was the "Visitation" by El Greco, one of the most unusual examples of this artist's works, the gift of an anonymous donor. To the collection of Florentine paintings three 14th century canvases were added by Miss Margaret Whitney, of Milbrook, N. Y. the water color collection was increased by a large group painted by Dr. Denman W. Ross and some of his pupils, and by a late work of Winslow Homer...