Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Boston underwriters Carver & Co. offered 102,000 shares of stock for sale in a new textile company, Ramie Mills of Florida Inc., the prospectus bore a familiar name, long absent from financial documents. President of Ramie Mills and now holder of 37,400 shares of stock is Richard Whitney, five times president of the New York Stock Exchange, who went to jail in 1938 for grand larceny...
...tried his hand at running a Cape Cod farm, worked himself up to a vice president's assistant in a fireworks factory, then got interested in Ramie when he moved to Florida. Last week the stock, issued at $2.87½, was quoted at $4.50. Paper profit to Whitney: $75,000. But Whitney does not plan to sell, lest he appear to be dabbling in securities. (Under his parole he must keep away from Wall Street, liquor, firearms, convicts.) And he thinks he has a good thing in Ramie...
...solid, staid old banking house of J.P. Morgan & Co. -which has seen many a crisis come & go, and expects to see many another-took a look at the state of the nation. In his annual report to stockholders, President George Whitney wrote...
Married. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney-Henry, 20, well-fixed granddaughter of Sportsman-Socialite-Financier Harry Payne Whitney and Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; and Luis Gabaldoni, 32, Peruvian businessman and vice consul in New York; in Manhattan...
John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, another of the Register's missing persons, also received shelter...