Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jock Whitney's uncle was the late Harry Payne Whitney, who inherited most of William Collins Whitney's fortune, organized the U. S. polo team that beat England in 1909, owned and sailed the America's Cup contender Vanitie (1910), in 1930 left the finest string of race horses in the U. S. to Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, his son by Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Sonny Whitney, almost as horsy as his Cousin Jock, has extended his family's business interests by becoming an active director of Pan American Airways. Last autumn he tried to become...
...Jock Whitney's mother is an important factor in this. Daughter of the McKinley-Roosevelt Secretary of State John Hay, she was always as keen about horses as Payne Whitney, has personally kept the dossiers of all the Greentree horses for many years...
...said that the Whitneys as a family, and the Jock Whitneys as individuals, are the chief props & mainstays of fine horses and horse racing in the U. S., can be gathered from the following list of places where Whitney flat-racers, steeplechasers, brood mares, stallions, polo ponies et al. were last week training, breeding, resting, munching oats...
...Jock Whitney...
...Payne Whitney...