Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Bank were gathered: Thomas Lament and Russell Leffingwell, stalwarts of the House of Morgan, Frank Altschul of Lazard Freres, Richard Whitney, president of the Stock Exchange, Mortimer Buckner, head of the Clearing House, Joseph Broderick, State Superintendent of Banks, President Gordon Rentschler of National City Bank and James Perkins, its chairman-successor of Charles Edwin Mitchell whose downfall had helped precipitate the national crisis...
...coach, Elmer Ripley, was a crack professional on the Celtics before 1929. Since he went to New Haven-possibly also because famed Albie Booth was on his 1931 team-bas-ketball has grown so popular at Yale that the 2,200 handsome chairs in the new Payne Whitney Gymnasium are not enough for the crowds. Next year the chairs may be taken out to make room for enough benches to seat...
Chairman Payson handsomely fits the role of heading an up & coming steel company. His broad thorax bent at an oar on three Yale varsity crews. He is a member of the Foreign Policy Association, a trustee of several hospitals. Plump Joan Whitney Payson has borne him four children, is a partner in a smart book shop. Last month she registered her colors with the American Jockey Club, thus officially taking to horse racing like all the other Whitneys. Husband Payson travels much, drives an imposing Rolls-Royce, likes to cruise north in his yacht to Portland, Me. where his family...
...first things that tall Charles Shipman Payson did after he graduated from Yale in 1921 was to marry Joan Whitney, daughter of the late Sportsman-Tycoon Payne Whitney and niece of the late Sportsman-Tycoon Harry Payne Whitney. One of the next things he did was to become interested in taking sugar syrups from Cuba to the U. S. Refined Syrups, Inc. made no money, claimed two engineers, until they suggested to Charlie Payson that he ship syrup sufficiently low in sugar content to dodge the $40-a-ton duty, pay 83? instead. Because this solution fermented within ten days...
...present, about 60 men are practicing, but 100 are expected before the first game. A number of well known athletes are already trying for places, among them T. E. Armstrong 1G.B., E. A. Mays 1G.B., A. W. Sherman '34, G. F. Bennett '33, and R. S. Hurlbut '34, Stanton Whitney, Jr. '34, P. C. Bothner '36, and H. L. Supper grE.S. of the French International Rugby Team, are the coaches...