Word: whitney
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Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt and son of Harry Payne Whitney. A devoted Democrat, he lent the National Committee money when things were at their gloomiest. "Sonny" Whitney helped found and finance Pan American Airways, is board chairman of Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co. and president of Whitney Industries, Inc., a New York State lumbering company. Since the election, Whitney has been promoted from Assistant Secretary of the Air Force to Under Secretary of Commerce...
They found Harry Truman determined as ever. The trainmen's A. F. Whitney sent a wire ("When is it wrong to get a bloody nose when you are right?"), then appeared himself. In a letter, Harry Truman replied: "I am much in the same frame of mind you are . . . The compromisers got nowhere as I was sure they wouldn't, and they never had any consideration for me." This sounded like a slap at Speaker Sam Rayburn, who tried to put over the compromise. Press Secretary Charles Ross hastily explained that there had been a double misprint...
Other capable skippers besides Putnam and Scullay include Charlie McElroy, who will Putnam shares the Boston Dinghy Cup, Dick Braested, and George Whitney...
...wham-wham-wham in the bunch. (MRS.) A. GORDON WHITNEY Westborough, Mass...
Shercliff, who stated earlier in the week that "Law students will find 'Trial by Jury' particularly instructive," denied rumors that the show includes a bagpipe solo by G. H. Whitney...