Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front cover) California is a phenomenon as well as a state. Its soil rises to the highest point in the 48 United States (Mt. Whitney, 14,496 ft.), sinks to the continent's deepest dimple (Death Valley, -276 ft.). In the fragrant gloom of Sequoia National Park indigenously grow some of the world's hugest trees; yet most Californians rest under the shade of the transplanted Australian eucalyptus. Across the State's deserts, prospectors still ride dusty, neat-footed burros, while at Santa Monica mechanics in the Douglas plant build some of the world's fastest...
...Whitney's lawyer was ready with his client's reply: "The respondent loves the child as one of her own children and for the past two years and more she has been a member of the family. . . . Her mother has rarely seen her and has had her overnight on only one occasion." According to Mrs. Whitney, Gloria, while on a visit to her mother last month, was told that she could not return to "Aunt Gertrude's" for a month. Thereupon Gloria developed a case of nervousness and hysteria which prompted her nurse to bring...
That Mrs. Vanderbilt had any legal right to her daughter Mrs. Whitney would not admit. When "Reggie" Vanderbilt died in 1925 his beauteous wife was but 20, too young to have legal custody of their baby. For ten years Mrs. Vanderbilt was content to let relatives worry over her daughter's upbringing. Three months ago she applied to be made Gloria's guardian. Mrs. Whitney countered with the charge that her sister-in-law was not a fit person to have her own daughter...
Besides her own affidavit last week Mrs. Whitney had others to prove her charge. One was from Gloria's portly Irish nurse, Emma Sullivan Keislich...
Upon the affidavit that bore the signature of Mrs. Vanderbilt's own mother. Mrs. Whitney relied most. Mrs. Laura Kilpatrick Morgan minced no words...