Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stanchly protecting his men from demands that they do "something practical," famed Willis Rodney Whitney, longtime (1900-32) head of General Electric Co.'s research laboratories at Schenectady, N. Y., used to say: "I would rather teach than be President." His tradition of free inquiry continues. Consequently by no means all the bulletins that emanate from Schenectady have to do with straightforward improvements in electrical equipment. Lately GE announced a garbage-grinder which would simplify removal of "kitchen waste" by flushing it, chopped fine, down the sink drain. Even farther removed from the usual run of industrial research...
Sloane's stable had been eclipsed in the public eye by that of 22-year-old Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. For the 37 stake events of the month, young "Al" Vanderbilt has 204 nominations, almost 100 more than C. V. Whitney who is second. Third day of the meet, Vanderbilt's Discovery and Identify finished first and second in the Wilson Stakes...
...Crooner Bing Crosby whose next picture will be about racing flew in from Hollywood. So did John Hay Whitney who missed the opening day's races for the first time in years. Governor and Mrs. Herbert Lehman motored from Albany the fourth day of the meet. Sportsman F. Ambrose Clark, who spends the night at his Saratoga cottage only when it rains, commuted by plane from Cooperstown. In the crowd that saw Al Vanderbilt's Postage Due win the United States Hotel Stakes were New Jersey's Attorney General David T. Wilentz, Producer George White, Sportsman Joseph...
...bookmakers, many of whom had arrived the night before on the "Cavanagh Special" (named for famed Ringmaster John G. Cavanagh), made Postage Due the favorite. The horse Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's trainer, Tom Healey, predicts will be better than Equipoise, a big chestnut colt named Red Rain, they dismissed contemptuously at 6-to-1. After the Mash the yapping of bookmakers that kept Saratoga's sparrows awake was mostly about Red Rain. Left at the post and running a miserable last, eight lengths behind the field at the half-mile post, he had suddenly come to life running...
Hudson Bay's board chairman is Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, eleven years older and a good deal wiser than the young man of 24 who first paddled and portaged to Flin Flon. He has done his part to uphold the Whitney tradition as the first sporting family of the land, but, like his first cousin John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, he has managed to mix with considerable grace business, horses and the conspicuous restlessness of the very rich. He helped found and finance Pan American Airways, is now its board-chairman. He has large holdings of irrigated land in the State...