Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...list of pocket-sized monthly magazines on the U. S. newsstand, a newcomer was added this week in the shape of Commentator, with Radio's Commentator Lowell Thomas billed as editor-in-chief. Backer-in-chief was Charles Shipman Payson, the tall, rusty-haired Manhattan lawyer whom Jock Whitney's sister Joan married. His ambition to be a publisher appears to have been fired by the thought that the commentators of radio probably had facts & opinions to give the world which radio's timorous self-censorship bottles up before the microphone...
...getter-in Senator Wheeler put on the stand that old investigation favorite, Richard Whitney, Depression president of the New York Stock Exchange. It developed that Broker Whitney and his predecessor as Stock Exchange president, Edward Henry Harriman Simmons, were on the famed "Morgan preferred list" for 1,000 shares each of Alleghany common stock. They got their allotments before they received application to list the stock...
...Broker Whitney: I certainly do. It would not and did not affect my judgment in the least...
Eight professors were also made members of the Legion as Chevaliers: Bliss Perry, Edward B. Hill '94, Edward W. Forbes '95, Roger K. Merriman '92, Ralph Barton Perry, Edward A. Whitney '17, former President of the CRIMSON, Kenneth J. Conant, and George Harold Edgell '09, who has recently become Director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts...
...Banker Whitney: Why shouldn...