Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crystal Gazer. Before the week was out he had proof that his veto and reversal would win him friends-at least for the time being. Alexander Fell Whitney, who once threatened to spend millions of his Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen's dollars to beat Harry Truman, wired that his Brotherhood was "deeply grateful." Said tired Phil Murray: "President Truman is a good political crystal gazer and he knows that if he is going to be a successful candidate in 1948, he has to have the support of organized labor. Whether the veto is or is not a matter...
...members of the 30-man Board are George Whitney '07, of New York, president of J. P. Morgan Co. Inc.; Dr. George P. Denny '09, of Boston, a physician; Clarence B. Randall '12, of Chicago, vice-President of the Inland Steel Co.; Robert E. Gross '19, of Los Angeles, president and chairman of the board of Lockheed Aircraft Corp.; and Amory Houghton '21, of Corning, N. Y. chairman of the board of Corning Glass Works...
Curran was sure the five C.I.O. maritime unions would be able to complete negotiations before their contracts expire June 15. Whitney announced that the five operating brotherhoods, freed from the one-year moratorium on rules changes imposed by President Truman, would start all over again through the time-consuming procedures of the Railway Labor...
...Billy hired Hecht and MacArthur to write the show, Rodgers & Hart to do the songs, Paul Whiteman and his orchestra to play them. Jimmy Durante as the star, and Broadway's biggest showcase, the Hippodrome, to house the spectacle. He called it Jumbo and induced Millionaire John Hay Whitney to back it with a down payment of $200,000. Cracked Rose: "This will either break Jock Whitney or make...
...time Jumbo finally opened, after six months of rehearsals, it had cost Whitney a lot more. Though it was a hit, it never paid for itself. But it did put Billy Rose on the map as a showman. It put him, specifically, in Fort Worth, Tex., which hired "Mr. Brice" at $1,000 a day to stage its 1936 Frontier Centennial...