Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, retired patriarch of the U. S. Supreme Court, found that Federal economy measures have reduced his retirement pay from $20,000 to $10,000 a year. To the Broad Street office of Richard Whitney, President of the New York Stock Exchange, went bald, spindly Author Chester Werntz ("Chet") Shafer, Grand Diapason of the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers, nonsensical organization of men who, as youngsters, used to pump wind for church organs. Grand Diapason Shafer wanted to consult Pumper Whitney about two shares of Burma Corp. Ltd. ("Burma Lead") which he had bought...
...Ohio economist, onetime (1921-28) chief of the Commerce Department's building & housing division. Democratic members: Nathan Adams, president of First National Bank of Dallas; Henry Morton Bodfish of Chicago, executive director of U. S. Building & Loan League. In the House, before he was retired by the late Dwight Whitney Morrow in the 1930 Senate contest, Mr. Fort specialized in agricultural legislation, fancied himself as an urban expert on farm problems. Patterned after the Government's land bank system, the Home Loan Board will shortly organize for the task of discounting prime mortgages on small houses...
Died. Professor Charles Melville Whitney, 70, Tufts Medical School urologist; near Lincoln, Me., while on his 49th consecutive annual expedition photographing wild animals in natural habitats. Famed in his collection is the photograph of a doe chastising her incautious fawn...
...became known that Mrs, John Hay ("Liz" Altemus) Whitney, socialite and horsewoman whose country estate is in Loudoun County, Va., had leased a cinema theatre in nearby Middleburg; had remodelled, air-conditioned it, installed sound equipment, upped admissions to 30? for adults, 15? for children...
...into zinc mines in Poland, a manganese concession in Russia. In 1919, six years out of Yale, Son Harriman formed W. A. Harriman & Co. which conducted a large-scale investment banking business. Hard-working young Mr. Harriman, attractive and sociable (two years ago he married Marie Norton Whitney, art-wise first wife of his turf friend Cornelius Vanderbilt ["Sonny"] Whitney), did not make a raging success of the firm. Its financial bulwarking made it an appropriate party last year to a merger with Brown Bros. & Co., forming Brown Bros. Harriman & Co. Another Harriman venture is Harriman & Co., a small firm...