Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week. The large blue trucks with cream paneling called three times. Along Philadelphia's swank, suburban Main Line, in & around socialite Hewlett, L. I. and in Reading, Pa. they stopped at the homes of William Wallace Atterbury, William Wistar Comfort, Mrs. Isaac Clothier Jr., Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney and hundreds of others in which were 4,000 dogs, 30 cats and one raccoon. On each truck in large green letters were the words CANINE CATERING CO. above a small green Scottie. At each stop a gauntleted, high-booted young man hopped out with a package. As he walked...
...foal to Lancegaye. Only other imported winner was Omar Khayyam (1917). Winner of all this year's three starts as a 3-year-old, Cavalcade received $28,175 of the $37,000 Derby purse. In addition, jubilant Mrs. Sloane, first woman to win the Derby since Mrs. Payne Whitney's victory with Twenty Grand (1931) was taken down to the judges' stand to receive the $5,000 gold trophy. Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley made appropriate remarks. Bumbling Governor Ruby Laffoon of Kentucky said it gave him "inexpress-, inexp- unexplainable pleasure" to present the cup. He then...
...approximately three-tenths of 1%. Mr. Pecora also failed to mention the fact that State and Federal transfer taxes during the period yielded more than $360,000,000, an amount equal to about 40% of brokers' total profits. Boiling mad at Mr. Pecora's tactics, President Richard Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange roundly damned the report as misleading propaganda in favor of the Stock Exchange Bill. But in his haste to expose Mr. Pecora's errors, President Whitney, too, fumbled his statistics. Referring to brokers' capital losses, which were not included in the report...
...Tennessee storekeeper who made a fortune during the Civil War, married off his daughters to socialites. The total value of Mrs. Vanderbilt's was not revealed. She divided a $7,000,000 trust fund between her daughters Countess (Gladys) Széchényi and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, three grandsons and two granddaughters. "The Breakers," her famed home at Newport, and her town house in Manhattan also went to Countess Széchényi. A $150,000 legacy and funds remaining from the sale of the old Vanderbilt chateau on west 57th Street were left...
HARVARD PRINCETON Sherman, fb. fb., Pasley Babbitt, rw.3/4 rw.3/4, Bales Meiklejohn, c.3/4 c.3/4, Halton Channing, c.3/4 c.3/4, Swann Howard, lw3/4. lw.3/4, Lee Whitney, soh. soh., Duffus Mayorga, sh. sh., McPartland White, f. f., Stewart Sweeney, f. f., Cragin Oppenheimer, f. f., Davis Knapp, f. f., Fisher Nazro, f. f., Hogg Aitken, f. f., McAllen Oettinger, f. f., Quigley Schwyzer, f. f., Sinclair...