Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elsewhere labor seemed less inclined to follow the disastrous tactics of the telephone workers, and more inclined to follow the successful strategy of Phil Murray's steelworkers. Both the railroad trainmen's A. F. Whitney and the National Maritime Union's Joe Curran, who had hit the nation a one-two punch last year, were now breathing peaceful assurances...
Eliot: Stroke, Scholle; 7, Fisk; 6, Wulsin; 5, Dutton; 4, Fish; 3, Parsons; 2, Coulter; bow, Weston; cox, Taylor. Winthrop: Stroke, D. McAllister; 7, Saltonstall; 6, Lewan; 5, Rackerman; 4, Whitney; 3, Hale; 2, Lehner; bow, Bowden; cox, Schless...
Last week Manhattan's Whitney Museum, the nation's top sponsor of U.S. art, was celebrating the 100th anniversary of Blakelock's birth with a retrospective show of his work. His, said the catalogue, was "one of the most tragic artists' lives ever recorded. Before we congratulate ourselves that it could not happen today, let us be sure that we have gained enough wisdom to recognize our gifted individuals no matter how far they may diverge from the norm...
Wilcox defeated Griggs (W), 5 and 4; Marchese (W) defeated Orr, 2 and 1; Wilcox and Orr defeated Griggs and Marchese (W); Cole (W) defeated Rickenbacker, 5 and 3; Savidge defeated Whitney (W), 3 and 2; Cole and Whitney (W) defeated Rickenbacker and Savidge; Noble (W) defeated J. Noble, 4 and 3; Eagan defeated Hunter (W), 6 and 5; J. Noble and Eagan defeated Noble and Hunter...
Kentuckians were more worried about C. V. Whitney's Virginia-bred Phalanx, a flop-eared bay with a peculiar hobbyhorse stride. Nobody had heard much about him last year until the two-year-olds began to go a distance of ground; then Phalanx showed a liking for the sport. Says Trainer Sylvester Veitch: "He's not hard to handle, but he'd just as soon step on you as not." Smart but rather overbearing, Phalanx is built-to-order for the rough, mile-and-a-quarter Derby grind. He isn't fussy whether the track...