Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney...
After quizzing the Browne servants, last week Sleuth Scaffa bee-lined for Manhattan's Hotel Montclair. There he uncovered the thief and gave Mrs. Browne a nasty shock. The culprit was one of her best friends, Mrs. Whitney Endt, 28, wife of an insurance broker, future heiress to a comfortable fortune, often a welcome guest in the Browne home. Mrs. Endt, who recently lost a child and suffered injuries in a motor wreck, weepingly promised to redeem the $2,000 worth of jewels from pawnbrokers. Police opinion: kleptomania...
...outer rooms were festive to the point of turbulence, but Franklin Delano Roosevelt, sitting at a long table in an inner room, was not available to all comers. He received Al Smith. Jack Dempsey got in for a moment. Bernard Mannes Baruch (in silk topper), curly-headed "Sonny" Whitney (who had not won his race for Congress but was supposedly in line for a sub-Cabinet job), Boss McCooey of Brooklyn, President Sam Levy of the Borough of Manhattan-all such, of course, had access. But through all their cordialities and rejoicing, Franklin Roosevelt continued to concentrate on the returns...
...Coolidge its prized Rumford Medal for the ''invention and applications of ductile tungsten." Dr. Coolidge also was in last week's news. Director of General Electric's research laboratory since 1900 and vice president in charge of research since 1928 has been Dr. Willis Rodney Whitney, who once averred that he "would rather teach than be President." He has been entirely responsible, as organizer and stimulator, of G. E.'s scientific staff and progress. Dr. Coolidge once said of him: "It is because Dr. Whitney is there that [Dr. Irving] Langmuir and I can play...
HARVARD M.I.T. England, g. g., Kaiser W. Wemple, r.f.b. l.f.b., Forsburg Gummere, l.f.b. r.f.b., Bateman Waters, r.h.b. l.h.b., Kidde Ware, c.h.b. c.h.b., Hansen Eaton, l.h.b. r.h.b., Waram Schumacher, r.o. l.o., Brockmann Clos, r.i. l.i., Stone Grover, c.f. c.f., Carey Whitney, l.i. r.l., Kron Baxter, l.o. r.o., Holladay...