Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus New Jersey's Dwight Whitney Morrow, Ambassador to Mexico, last week formally accepting the U. S. Senate seat to which he will return from the London naval conference (TIME, Dec. 9). The day before, 50 potent New Jersey Republicans had met at Orange, formed the "Morrow-for-President-in-1936 Club." Meanwhile the New York Telegram in a front page story had given a headline nomination to New York's Owen D. Young as Candidate Morrow's 1936 Democratic opponent...
...evolution of dogs, will have but to go to Yale University's Peabody Museum and examine the bones of 200 canine generations which will then be on exhibition. Specimen dogs of the 79 recognized breeds will be mounted, put side by side with their skeletons for comparison. Leon Whitney, authority on genetics, is in charge of the collection and already has skulls of the black and tan, Newfoundland, Irish Wolfhound, and entire skeletons and skins of the Cocker Spaniel, French Bulldog, bloodhound. Latest arrival was Togo, a husky serum-courier of Nome who, doddering with age, was sent...
...explosion on the U. S. S. Whitney killed seven men. Ten Marines were slain in Nicaragua. In plane accidents 26 Navy, 13 Marine flyers died. Other Navy fatalities: drowned, 72; suicides, 35; murdered, 5; drugged, 12. Bad food made 129 sick, killed none...
...punned Business Manager Louis Wiley of the New York Times, toastmaster at a send-off luncheon last week in Manhattan to Walter Evans Edge, embarking as Ambassador to France. But in New Jersey many a Republican looked with anything but joy upon Dwight Whitney Morrow's decision to leave his embassy in Mexico City and-after the London naval conference-succeed Mr. Edge in the Senate (TIME, Dec. 9). Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen of Raritan, N. J., and his friends had long been planning to boost Mr. Frelinghuysen back into the Senate seat he lost in 1922. He had already...
...Virginia. In 1914 she founded Foxcroft. The War probably helped her quite as definitely as it helped U. S. munitions makers, though differently. People were not sending their daughters off to school in Europe in 1914. Miss Noland got some specially fine daughters among her first Foxcrofters. Flora Whitney, whose turfwise family knew the Middleburg atmosphere, was an early and helpful matriculant. Novelist Rupert Hughes sent his dark daughter Avis. Other New York names later enrolled were Vander Poel, Milburn, Wickes, Griswold. From Philadelphia came a Clothier. From Boston came a daughter of Editor Ellery Sedgwick of the Atlantic Monthly...