Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry Breckinridge, his companion and legal adviser through the past ten agonizing weeks, accompanied the box to Linden, N. J. In a square, grey building with a straight black smokestack cremation took place. The ashes were removed to Englewood where Mrs. Linbergh's widowed mother, Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow, lives...
...Gillette, C. B. Gleason, A. G. Goodhue, A. C. Hanford, M. A. Howard, A. E. Hindmarsh, Llewellyn Howland, G. T. Keyes, A. V. Kidder, Delmar Leighton, G. W. Lewis, E. F. Locke, Matthew Luce, W. D. Robbins, Robert Saltonstall, R. C. Storey, H. M. Watts, C. H. P. Whitney, A. C. Woodard, and W. B. Wood...
...last week's Kentucky Derby was described by Lester Doctor, betting expert for the Whitneys. The morning of the race he had made a long distance call, been cut off by an operator who said something about "overtime." Lester Doctor said he was playing Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's entry, Overtime...
Earl Sande, most famed jockey in the U. S., his cheerful little face pinched by the strain of making weight, had won three Derbies and wanted another to break the record. He was wearing Mrs. "Jock" Whitney's fuchsia silks, as was Lavelle ("Buddy") Ensor, whom she had chosen to ride Stepenfetchit. Ten years ago, when he was regarded as the best rider in the country, Ensor's conviviality grew so pronounced that no trainer dared trust him with a mount. This year, reformed at 34, his comeback has been even more dramatic than Sande...
Scouting the precious testimony of President Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange that the public was to blame for its mad scramble to participate in the Coolidge Bull market, the burly little Representative from Manhattan charged that brokers and operators always retained a high pressure press agent to puff stocks selected for manipulation. From his trunk he fished out evidence furnished by one Arthur Newton Plummer, who had "handled" 61 stocks...