Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Richard Whitney to the bar!" This week in the New York General Sessions Court of red-haired Judge Owen W. Bohan these simple words finally summoned the onetime president of the New York Stock Exchange to be sentenced for stealing his customers' securities (TIME, March 14, et seq.). His heavy face haggard, his hands twitching, Richard Whitney stood...
...Monday, the 7th day of last March, I met Mr. Richard Whitney for the first time. He then told me in effect that certain of his actions had been wrong . . . that he felt that a public confession was due from him. . . . He added that he was determined to meet the consequences. In 36 years of experience at the bar I had never heard such an astonishing statement. . . . There are other men without number who have sought legal advice to avoid or delay the law, have lent a willing ear to tactics or procrastination, have stooped to pleas denying mental...
...before Judge Bohan was another long plea from District Attorney Thomas Dewey demanding a "substantial and punitive sentence" on two counts of stealing from his wife's trust fund and from the portfolio of the New York Yacht Club. As Richard Whitney stood pale before him, Judge Bohan lost no time in showing with which plea his sympathies lay. Said...
Visibly shattered, Richard Whitney was led out, started toward Sing Sing, in the company of one John Mahoney, who had been sentenced to 30 to 60 years for stealing...
With the exception of Whitney and Knapp, out with injuries, the home team will be at top strength and should furnish the New Jersey group considerable opposition. St. Andrews, which is composed mainly of Yale and Princeton graduates, has won one and lost twice...