Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jockey Gilbert, 18, and Jockey Hank Mills, 17, who finished the season with 196 winners, erroneously credited Jockey Gilbert witha record, because he had ridden more winners than Jockey Lee Hardy in 1927 (207). In 1908, Jockey Vincent Powers, now trainer of Mrs. Payne Whitney's steeplechasers, rode 324 winners. Jockey Walter Miller, stable rider for the late James R. Keene, famed for his skill in handling mounts at the barrier, won 388 races...
...President David Brown Robertson of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen, patched together the existing wage arrangement. And although present, President Robertson was no longer the voice of railway labor. New leaders were General Manager William Francis Thiehoff of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, onetime section laborer, and President Alexander Fell Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, onetime news butcher. Three times during the day the meeting disbanded. Three times it reconvened. At 9.20 p. m. a decision was reached...
...Museum of Art came a routine Press announcement last week. Following its new policy of buying contemporary works of U. S. artists, the museum had acquired five canvases-Disappointed Fisherman by Henry Varnum Poor from the Montross Galleries and four others chosen from the current biennial display at the Whitney Museum: Blue Heron by Jonas Lie; In a Cafe by Adolphe Barie; Union Square by David Morrison; Delaware Water Gap Village by Louis Michiel Eilshemius...
This addition to the Business School curriculum was made, at the suggestion of a graduate committee of W. S. Gifford '04, J. I. Straus '93, and George Whitney '07 who, in recommending the plan pointed out that the school facilities for constructive business training must be made available this winter as a substitute for the demoralizing effect o waiting of jobs. It is understood that students who attend the session will have the same classroom instruction under the regular faculty...
...fashion. While he flourished mightily in an era when undergraduates sat along the campus fence and sang "Integer Vitae" and "Freshmen, Wake" of an evening, he could never be quite at home in the Dizzy Club while on a Manhattan week end, or participating in a perfumed and platinum Whitney Avenue cocktail party. A more ingenuous age was Frank's setting, and for him platinum blondes could never spell romance or contract bridge be the most exciting of pastimes. The New York Herald-Tribune...