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Emmanuel's 1948 itinerary included a weekend at Wellesley. Mrs. Hsley reports: "The girls were delighted; we were charmed." It was Mrs. Hsley who suggested to the Wellesley faculty that the poet be offered the Mary Whiton Calkins Professorship for the 1949-1950 academic year. (The Calkins Professorship shifts from department to department each year...
...Bureau Federation; John G. Winant of the Social Security Board; Charles Gay of the New York Stock Exchange; Major General John F. O'Ryan; Under Secretary of the Interior Charles West; Mayor LaGuardia and Bishop Francis J. McConnell of New York City. Among them too was Alpha R. Whiton, Democratic chairman of Putnam County who by personal request is making an attempt to rid the Squire of Hyde Park of an old grievance-the indignity of being a constituent of an arch-Republican, Representative Hamilton Fish...
...utility man, master of Central States Electric Corp. and North American Co. The degree of his mastery is evident from the fact that in 1931 he controlled of North American. Naturally he was rich. As an interesting gesture he with Vincent Astor, Marshall Field and the late Henry Devereaux Whiton financed William Beebe's expeditions to the Sargasso Sea and the Galapagos Islands-with the result that there is today a Harrison Williams Volcano in the islands. He also bought the Krupp-built Vanados, then largest yacht afloat, with a cruising radius of 12,000 mi., renamed her Warrior...
...Williams hobby is marine exploration. In connection with Vincent Astor, Marshall Field and Henry D. Whiton, and under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society, he financed Explorer William Beebe's expedition to the Galapagos Islands. On Galapagos there is a volcano now named Harrison Williams. In 1920 he bought the Krupp-built yacht Vanados, then Largest Yacht, rechristened it Warrior, equipped it with apparatus for testing ocean currents and temperatures. In 1926 he married Mrs. Mona Travis Strader Bush, onetime wife of James I. Bush, vice president of Equitable Trust Co. and took the Warrior...
Brandeis--Greenberg, Goff v. Williston--Smith, Whiton...