Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flourished as glorious campus institutions. Frank is being brought up to date by Gilbert Patten, who created him under the name of Burt L. Standish. Now he will probably live in his rewritten version in Harkness Brick Court, exercise under the eagle eye of Bob Kiphuth in the new Whitney Memorial Gymnasium and snatch a toasted bun for breakfast at the new Ac Longley's, where Mrs. Graves is no longer cashier...
...grow. His style, from the polished realism of his early Paris canvases through the brightly colored Dutch peasant scenes of the 1900's to the solid portraits of his later work, was never fixed. At the age of 71 he produced a nude study, "Virginia Beach," which the Whitney Museum hung last month with its biennial exhibition of young modernists...
Sorest Spot in the side of organized U. S. Labor at present is the wound whence the railways extracted a 10% horizontal wage cut last year (TIME, Feb. 8). President Alexander Fell Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, speaking for the running crafts (engineers, firemen & enginemen, conductors, trainmen), served notice that while railway workers might agree to continue the reduced pay scale another year on Jan. 1, they would fight to the last ditch incipient demands for further reductions by railway management. Railway unionists will meet in Chicago Dec. 7 to consolidate their position before meeting with management representatives...
...dwindling to $29,000,000 and the profits to nil, and because N. C. R. could no longer pay dividends, high-powered Mr. Barringer resigned. Into his job but not his office went Col. Edward Andrew Deeds, tightlipped, bespectacled chairman of Niles-Bement-Pond Co. (electric machinery), of Pratt & Whitney (airplane motors), of General Sugar Corp. It was a home-coming for Colonel Deeds, for he got his start as a young engineer in N. C. R., rose to general manager before branching out into machinery and aviation. Last week after more than a year as chairman Colonel Deeds dealt...
...Kettering followed to become a pillar of G. M. Colonel Deeds became interested in aviation during the War. took charge of Government airplane production. He is largely credited with perfecting the Liberty motor. After the War he followed both electric machinery and aviation into Niles-Bement-Pond and Pratt & Whitney. As a director of National City Bank he stepped into the presidency of National Sugar Corp. On his 205-ft. Diesel yacht The Lotosland he has a pipe organ, a seaplane tender...