Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sometimes destroyed. To preserve for students and posterity important moving pictures of the past will be the function of the film library which Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art this week announced that it planned to start next autumn, with Rockefeller Foundation funds. The officers included John Hay Whitney as president, John E. Abbott, vice president & general manager, and Edward M. M. Warburg, treasurer...
...Island's swank North Shore estate of onetime Aircraft Manufacturer Grover Cleveland Loening, 500 socialites gathered for a beauty contest between "16 Gorgeous, Glorious, Glamorous Girls, a Breath-taking Panoply of Pulchritude" enlisted from the neighborhood's own select ranks. Among the contestants were Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney as Miss Wheatley Hills, Mrs. John R. Fell as Miss Woodbury, Helen Whitney Bourne as Miss Mitt Neck, Mrs. George Hepburn as Miss Locust Valley, Mrs. Jay Carlisle Jr. as Miss East Islip. The young women first paraded before the judges in evening dress, then in bathing suits. Selected...
Gambling on the public's reaction to Becky Sharp at the world premiere of that all-color film at Manhattan's Music Hall last week, hundreds of Wall Streeters took a flier in Technicolor stock on the New York Curb. If John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's Pioneer Pictures, which control 15% of Technicolor, Inc., made an impressive splash with their $1,000,000 production, the black-&-white cinema industry might become as passe as the silent films, and Technicolor would stand as a very profitable colossus at the entrance to a new era in cinema production...
...Washington to call on the Securities & Exchange Commission, met Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy for the first time. As if to emphasize his promises of cooperation, President Gay announced that the Stock Exchange was closing its "Washington Embassy," a colonnaded house on aristocratic Tracy Place which onetime President Richard Whitney used as a lobby base to fight passage of the Securities & Exchange...
...Douglas, as Godkin lecturer, flays New Deal; Whitney resigns from position as Kirkland House Master...