Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvardmen. Vanderbilts against Harrimans, horsemen against non-horsemen. Manhasset against Sagamore Hill in the ist Congressional District of New York last week. Even the several hundred thousand plain people inhabiting Long Island were aware that an unusual contest was being waged between curly-headed, soft-eyed Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny"') Whitney* and big. bluff Robert Low Bacon for the latter's seat in Congress. The opponents handled their campaigns with kid rather than loaded gloves, but each bestirred himself energetically. Democrat Whitney, his beauteous second wife, three station wagons, a touring car and a four-piece band proceeded up & down...
Sharpest blow in the Long Island contest was aimed at Nominee Whitney by sharp-tongued Editor Julian Starkweather Mason of the Society-struck New York Evening Post: "He has conducted the usual amateur campaign. . . . Stories of his heavy contributions to the Democratic campaign fund grew. . . . Reports increased that his party managers did not expect him to win but were going to 'take care of him if Roosevelt won by giving him Trubee Davison's job [Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics] at Washington. . . . Young men with the political morals of Cornelius V. Whitney should not be welcomed to our public...
...lineup started on its own 30-yard line and marched to the Second's 30-yard stripe, where they gave up the ball on downs. Whitney shortly afterwards intercepted a pass and finally maneuvered his team down to the Jayvee's two-yard line, where the scrubs again held. The Seconds displayed little offensive and were able to make but one first down against the B team...
Bartol, Werner, l.e.; Barrows, Healey, l.t.; Crane, Healey, Raff, l.g.; Casey, Casale, Lockwood, c.; Rogers, Dow, Scott, Raff, r.g.; Cullen, Francisco, Kidder, r.t.; Lowe, Wolcott, r.c.; Whitney, Peter, q.b.; Waters, Ferry, f.b.; Barrett, Hurlbut, Whipple, r.h.b.; Locke, Grady, Sherman, Bennett, l.h.b...
...Committee passing the new measure is composed of W. J. Bingham '16, director of Athletics, Chairman; Faculty members: A. C. Hanford, dean of Harvard College, Henry Pennypacker '88, chairman of the Committee on Admissions, and Dr. Alfred Worcester '78, head of the Hygiene department; graduate members: George Whitney '07, William Edmunds '00, and C. P. Curtis Jr. '13; undergraduate members: Robert Saltonstall '33, hockey captain, R. H. Hallowell '33, crew and football letterman, and Hamilton Young '33, football manager...