Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...David Whitney Lewis...
...Manhattan last week Supreme Court Justice John Francis Carew put the finishing touches to his decision giving possession of 10-year-old Gloria Vanderbilt to her aunt, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney (TIME, Nov. 26, et ante). "Calculated to destroy her health and neglectful of her moral, spiritual and mental education," Justice Carew ruled, had been Gloria's life with her glittering young widowed mother, Mrs. Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt. "Fit, suitable and appropriate" to his mind had been the child's life for the past two years at Mrs. Whitney's Old Westbury, L. I. estate...
Apparently to forestall an appeal, Justice Carew neither sustained nor dismissed the writ of habeas corpus by which Mrs. Vanderbilt sought to get her daughter back from Mrs. Whitney. Instead he made Gloria a ward of the Supreme Court of New York, appointed Mrs. Whitney her custodian as the Court's representative. He ordered Mrs. Whitney to continue the child's schooling, maintain her "in a manner suitable to her fortune" ($2,800,000), provide a Roman Catholic governess who would instruct her in her mother's faith.* Gloria should never be taken out of New York...
...Commented Episcopalian Mrs. Whitney: "I am used to Catholic nieces. I have six in whose religious upbringing I am interested...
When Mrs. Whitney took the stand, she was seen to be fingering several small prayer books. Because Mrs. Whitney is an Episcopalian and Mrs. Vanderbilt a Roman Catholic, the question of Gloria's religious training became a major point at issue. But so criss-crossed were the ties of family affection that Catholic Mrs. Morgan was reported to be praying before an improvised altar in her dressing room that her granddaughter might remain with Episcopalian Mrs. Whitney. Mrs. Whitney attempted to sidetrack the religious issue by declaring that if Gloria remained in her custody, she would be reared...