Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator, now U. S. Ambassador to France. Most memorable remark of the evening: Senator George Higgins Moses' reference to the Senate as ''that contenated order of glorified errand boys." The evening's news: announcement by Governor Morgan Foster Larson that he would appoint Dwight Whitney Morrow, U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, to fill Ambassador Edge's seat in the Senate when Mr. Morrow returns from next month's London Naval Conference...
National Republicans viewed as something of a milestone the news that quizzical. popular Dwight Whitney Morrow, onetime Morgan partner, was going to continue in public life, was going to proceed from the appointive to the elective field of politics...
...saying that great emergencies produce men who are competent to deal with them" began a resolution adopted last week by the Governing Committee of the New York Stock Exchange. The "emergency" was of course the October-November break. The man was Richard Whitney, vice president of the Exchange, acting as president while E. H. H. Simmons was honeymooning. Whitney qualities praised in the resolution were "courage, resourcefulness, and sound judgment . . . rare qualities of leadership." Oldsters, saying this was the first instance of personal praise by the Committee, wagered Mr. Whitney will be elected president of the Exchange next May. President...
...Completed last week was the U. S. delegation to the five-power naval conference at London next January. To join Statesman Stimson, and Senators Reed and Robinson (of Arkansas), President Hoover appointed Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, Ambassadors Charles Gates Dawes (Britain), Hugh Gibson (Belgium), Dwight Whitney Morrow (Mexico). Likewise he smoothed out a case of hurt pride when he induced Rear-Admiral Hilary Pollard Jones, retired, to accompany the U. S. delegation to London as a "naval adviser." Admiral Jones, a full-fledged delegate to the fruitless conference of 1927 at Geneva, was represented as feeling...
Class C: Weston Golf Club defeated Harvard Freshmen, 5 to 0 Whitney (W) defeated G. B. Webber '33, 15-12, 11-13, 15-11, 15-10: Sears (W) defeated H I Blaxter '33, 15-12 15-S, 16-13: Dumame (W) defeated R. S. Francis Jr. '33, 15-10, 15-11, 16-13: Furness (W) defeated E.E. Mitchell '33, 15-9, 15-12, 157. Cross (W) defeated J. R. Fetcher...