Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longest on the faculty of Manhattan's Art Students' League, has been a respected U. S. painter for about ten years. Few people were prepared, however, to find his roomful of canvases at the Rehn Galleries the most satisfying in the city, not excluding the big Whitney Museum annual of contemporary U. S. painting...
...President Walter S. Gifford was recovering from an appendectomy. But beaming upon the beginning of a new chapter in the history of their somewhat eccentric institution were Trustees Gano Dunn, a prosperous engineer, Elihu Root Jr. and Barklie Henry, a son-in-law of the late Socialite Harry Payne Whitney...
Wall Street last week came to the dregs of the Richard Whitney cup. Having issued a factual summary of the case and a set of drastic rules to prevent its recurrence (TIME, Nov. 7), SEC wrote finis to the tragedy with a stinging lecture and rebuke to the Old Guard which Richard Whitney once ruled. Excerpt...
...inescapably outstanding fact revealed in this report is the dangerous outmoded philosophy which, until the recent advent of a new management, dominated the affairs of the Exchange. This philosophy was characterized by the unwritten code of silence respecting misdeeds or misconduct of a member such as Richard Whitney...
...Morgan partners, Thomas W. Lamont and George Whitney, although they knew, in November 1937, of Richard Whitney's misconduct,* never called that fact to the attention of the Exchange authorities. Had it not been for their silence and inaction, he could not have continued in business, as he did, for months thereafter. George Whitney was Richard Whitney's brother...