Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Pierpont Morgan gave it $2,000,000. George Fisher Baker & his late father jointly gave an-other $2,000,000. The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial also gave $2,000,000. But the largest donor and virtual creator of the medical centre was the late generous Payne Whitney. His gifts totaled some...
...when President Coolidge was empowered by Congress to appoint an Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation as a result of the investigation into the air services conducted by Morgan Partner Dwight Whitney Morrow, the summoning of Trubee Davison from the New York legislature was almost a matter of course...
...another co-operative banking enterprise, American Securities Investing Corp. ("the bond pool"), formed by J. P. Morgan & Co. and other banks to purchase sound but depreciated bonds for profit (TIME. June 13). Its formation marked the turn in the bondmarket. Officered by Morgan Partners Thomas William Lament and George Whitney as president and board chairman, A. S. I. C. has called for only $10,000,000 of its subscribed $100,000,000. Even on that sum Wall Street thinks it must have rolled up a fat profit. A boiling bond- market last week brought the Dow-Jones averages 24% above...
...with a snouted, bawling face on its side. Last week a fifth piece went on exhibition at the American Museum. Found 22 years ago by a U. S. engineer, now dead, during excavation work on a Mexican dam. it was bought and presented to the Museum by Mrs. Payne Whitney, Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson and John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. Similar in workmanship to the axehead, it is called a Tenth Century tiger, representing the god Tezcatlipoca of the little-known Olmec people who once lived in the states of Vera Cruz, Oaxaca and Tabasco and are sometimes cited...
...York curly-haired Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 33, Yale-man, socialite and inheritor of one-fourth of his father's 77-million-dollar fortune, including his great racing stable, announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Congressman from the first (North Long Island) district. He had the support of Democratic bosses against his friend, tall, handsome Robert Low Bacon, incumbent. Congressman Bacon, 48, onetime Harvard athlete son of rich, famed Robert Bacon, was once designated by Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka as "the wholesome, effective type of future American." Candidate Whitney, twice married, is a grandson of William Collins Whitney...