Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hawaii, the name of Dillingham is to Dole as the name of Whitney is to Rockefeller in the U. S. Harold Dillingham, whose big house stands on Diamond Head Drive above the finish line of last week's race, has island interests in sugar. fruit, shipping and railroads as well as yachting. His brother Walter is a sugar and utilities tycoon as well as a crack polo player...
...college Harry Payne Whitney once declared in a questionnaire that he could trace his ancestry "out of sight." To trace the fortune he left when he died in 1930 it was not necessary to go back farther than his father, William Collins Whitney, traction tycoon, Secretary of the Navy under Cleveland, who left him $24,000,000; and his uncle, Col. Oliver Hazard Payne, who left him about $12,000,000. Last week Harry Payne Whitney's fortune at the time of his death was appraised by New York State for tax collection purposes...
...hanging, slambang, in the vestibule of the American Pavilion at the 10th Biennial Art Exhibition. Ever since the Exhibition opened in mid-May visitors thought it strange that this work by a Polish artist should be so prominently displayed in a U. S. collection supposedly owned entirely by the Whitney Museum of American Art. Last week, in London, Mrs. Juliana R. Force, the Whitney Museum's energetic director, thought it was so strange that she threatened to withdraw, crate and ship back to the U. S. the entire Whitney exhibit (101 pictures) unless the unauthorized Davies portrait was removed...
...newshawks in Rome put odds & ends together and came to this conclusion: William Randolph Hearst, anxious to have Miss Davies' portrait exhibited, offered to pay the shipping costs of the entire Whitney collection if the picture were included. Mrs. Force declined his offer. Thereupon Mr. Hearst sent the picture alone to Italy where a Hearstling approached U. S. Ambassador Breckinridge Long to see what could be done about having it exhibited in Venice. When Ambassador Long decided not to use his good offices in Mr. Hearst's behalf, the Hearst man went directly to Count Volpi, finally...
...Stanton Whitney, Jr. 34, of Red Bank, N. J., has been awarded the Lionel de Jersey Studentship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England. The studentship, established by the Associated Harvard Clubs, gives a year of study at Cam- bridge, The scholar lives in the room which John Harvard is supposed to have occupied. Whitney prepared at Groton, He has been on the University Football Team, and the University Wresting Team; has been captain of the University Rugby Team, holder of a John Harvard Scholarship, vice-president of his Junior Class and a member of the Permanent Class Committee. His field...