Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrenched knee. Last week Cavalcade was disappointingly scratched also, when his trainer decided a bruise on his right front foot would not heal in time to permit him to run. This left the race open to such candidates as Morton L. Schwartz's Observant and Cornelius Vanderbilt (''Sonny") Whitney's Roustabout...
First stake race of Saratoga's season went, appropriately, to Fitter Pat, whose owner, William Woodward, is chairman of The Jockey Club. At the track three days later Governor and Mrs. Lehman watched Mrs. John Hay Whitney's Rocky Run set a new two-mile track record to win the Beverwyck Steeplechase Handicap. First long-shot winner at Saratoga was a horse named Wee Tune at 50-to-1, on which bookmakers dropped some $50,000. Col. Edward Riley Bradley, who had 30 horses in his Saratoga string, got up at 4 a.m., went out to the track...
Looking for socialites in the crowd of 15,000 that watched Col. Bradley's Balladier win the United States Hotel Stakes, photographers found: Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (whose Discovery has run second to Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's Cavalcade in four major races this year); Mrs. John Hay Whitney (who goes for morning rides on the backstretch of the racetrack) ; Joseph Widener (just back from Europe, wearing button-shoes); Samuel D. Riddle (who gives a party every time a descendant of his famed Man o' War wins a race); old John Sanford (whose son "Laddie" was playing polo...
...businessman Harry Payne Whitney had invested more wisely than his uncle would have supposed. The stocks which were appraised at $47,462,000 at his death would have brought nearly $41,000,000 in last week's markets&151;a record of which any investment trust might well be proud. Chief reason for the small decline (14%) lay in the fact that the Roosevelt dollar had pushed the value of his holdings in Hudson Bay Mining. The current demand for gold shares and the higher price of gold had pushed his holdings in Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co. from...
...their hands on the Whitney estate, heirs had to pay state taxes of $9,513,000. Principal beneficiaries were his widow Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; his daughters (Mrs. Flora Whitney Miller and Mrs. Barbara Whitney Henry); his son Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney who got the largest share and is currently active in aviation, technicolor movies and other businesses...