Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were only five horses in the race and Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney's Equipoise, the 1 to 5 favorite, had beaten most of them before. So there was not a great deal of betting on the Hawthorne Gold Cup Race at Cicero, Ill.., last week. Nonetheless, because victory would make Equipoise the fourth largest money-winning horse in the U. S. track history, the crowd at Hawthorne-which has failed to attract its share of Chicago's visitors this summer because of Cicero's unsavory Capone reputation-was larger than usual. At the post Equipoise, instead...
...occasionally to $7 but flopped back on their minimum, $6.50. From similar listlessness, begotten partly by regulation, Manhattan's Stock Exchange was saved by outside stimulants. Following pricking of the speculative bubble three weeks ago, the Senate's busy Prosecutor Ferdinand Pecora called on Exchange President Whitney, told him speculation must be curbed. Last week the Exchange announced two new rules: 1) brokers must report weekly to the Exchange all that they know of the operations of pools and syndicates; 2) traders with debit balances of over $5,000 must maintain margins equal to 30% of the debit...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's five-year-old racehorse Equipoise, carrying 135 lb., at odds of 15 to 20: his fourth race in a row this year, the Arlington Handicap, with Watch Him second and Gallant Sir third; at Chicago...
Married. Roark Whitney Wickliffe Bradford, 36, author of Louisiana Negro stories from which was adapted the 1929 Pulitzer Prize Play, The Green Pastures; and Mary Rose Sciarra Himler. 33, mother of his year-old son; in El Paso, Tex., two days after Author Bradford divorced in Mexico his first wife Lydia Sehorn Bradford, longtime tuberculosis patient in Arizona...
President Richard Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange did not go to work at No. 18 Broad St. one morning last week but continued on down the street to No. 81. There the head of Manhattan's oldest exchange turned in to help the head of Manhattan's youngest exchange open its new quarters...