Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Banker Jackson Eli Reynolds of First National and Morgan Partner George Whitney had a more immediate objection: they thought that with the current low estate of rails they would have a pauper's hard time selling a 4% Central bond, conversion feature or no. Moreover, by selling the bonds as Mr. Jones suggested, they hinted that he was tricking them into "an underwriting . . . forbidden by [New Deal] law." And, listing all the other objections they could think of, together with a counterproposal (put both bank and RFC loans on a six-month-notice basis), Messrs. Reynolds & Whitney wrote...
...crowd were Governors Lehman of New York, Hoffman of New Jersey, Earle of Pennsylvania, Cross of Connecticut. Fitzgerald of Michigan, Brann of Maine. There were One-Eye Connelly, Theodore Roosevelt. Ricardo Cortez, J. Edgar Hoover, Grade Allen, Warden Lawes, Paul Whiteman, Jock Whitney, Sally Rand. Gate receipts-including rights to radio and cinema-bettered $1,000,000. It was the first million-dollar fight since Dempsey v. Tunney in 1927, the sixth in ring history.* Hotels were packed to the doors, mostly by Middle Westerners celebrating a prosperous summer. Top-price on Broadway for ringside seats...
...protect themselves. At a tall desk with clerks and calculating machines stood Col. Leonard P. Ayres, Cleveland Trust Co.'s vice president-economist who bid in behalf of Mid-American Corp., especially chartered last week as the new top Van Sweringen holding company. Morgan Partner George Whitney was there with Morgan lawyers. Conspicuously absent was old bush-bearded Leonor Fresnel Loree, who has been built up in the Press as a likely Van Sweringen rival. And toward the rear was the iron-grey head of Oris Paxton Van Sweringen. Brother Mantis James did not attend...
Biographies by Harold Nicolson (Paul Verlaine; Swinburne; Curzon) have been characterized by careful scholarship, an almost ostentatious avoidance of partisan feeling, a mood of suppressed irony. These qualities are all revealed in his biography of Dwight Whitney Morrow, lawyer, Morgan partner, Ambassador to Mexico, Senator from New Jersey, whose life receives at Harold Nicolson's hands an intelligent and exhaustive review such as few U. S. capitalists have enjoyed. Beginning with an apology for the inability of an English author to comprehend all the factors of a U. S. background, Harold Nicolson presents Morrow as a "completely civilized...
Other members of the Council are: John H. Bartol '36; Francis G. Brigham, Jr. '37; Whitney G. Case, 2nd '36; Richard J. Currie '36; Thomas B. Edmands '36; Richard T. Fisher, Jr. '36; Edward H. Gerry '36; Germain G. Glidden '36; Albert G. Hale '36; Melvin F. Bill, Jr. '36; Robart C. Hunter, Jr. '36; Harold E. Jahn '36; Philip E. Lillenthal '36; Robert S. Playfair '36; John G. Seaunell '36; William A. Smith '36; Howland B. Steddard '36; Nelson D. Warwick '36; Leavitt S. White '37; LeMoyne White...