Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Actress Beatrice Whitney Straight, niece of the late Harry Payne Whitney, daughter of New Republic Co-Founder Mrs. Leonard Elmhirst; and Louis Dolivet, a Free French leader in Manhattan; in Des Moines, Iowa...
...last two events, when Blue victories in the 100-yard backstroke and medley relay events brought the Yale squad to within a point of the victors. Mike Brody's win in the 100-yard breaststroke was the best time of the evening. Brody covered the course in the Payne Whitney Pool in a good...
...were back in 1937, Wall Street and SEC last week belabored each other with adjectives. A lawyer named Twombly said SEC was "unjust, unfair, un-American." SEC replied by exhuming the ghost of Dick Whitney. A new war had started over how to keep the peace...
Both sides went to town on this last point. New York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram protested that it would kill self-regulation of the Stock Exchange just when the Exchange had reorganized for that very purpose. SEC in turn not only dragged out Dick Whitney, but also the more recent Cuppia case. Jerome Chester Cuppia, a former partner of E. A. Pierce and ex-governor of the N.Y. Curb Exchange, exiled himself to South America in 1940 after engaging in fee-splitting and kickbacks totaling over $1,000,000 in eight years (an infraction of the Curb...
...stooge for Green's personal enemy, Lewis, the old man of the A.F. of L. may sacrifice himself on the altar of unity and cede the leadership of the new American Council of Labor to the younger C.I.O. leader. As a compromise the job might even go to Alexander Whitney of the railroad brotherhoods, which may be drawn into the proposed alliance. The gain in strength which will accompany the cessation of jurisdictional arguments, factional fights, and inter-organization personal feuds will more than compensate for whatever sacrifices each side is forced to make to secure peace...