Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Whitney...
...united family. Its chief counsel (also a director) was none other than former SEC General Counsel Johnny Burns. He and belly-laughing Floyd Carlisle wanted to play ball with SEC immediately. Chief on the opposite side of the table in United's board room was Morgan Partner George Whitney...
...March 28, 1938 the Supreme Court settled matters by ruling the Holding Company Act valid. The first price of compliance with the Act was the resignation of Banker Whitney, two other friendly banker directors. But Niagara Hudson's Floyd Carlisle was re-elected to the United board-as the representative of "a large investing interest." United announced it would register as a holding company...
Last week Lang Williams and "Jock" Whitney decided the time had come to bring another youngster into the business, to keep it in step with present-day social trends. They announced an old friend of Lang Williams' as a new director of Freeport Sulphyr: husky, 38-year-old Alan Valentine (onetime Swarthmore footballer and Phi Beta Kappa), now president of wealthy, Eastman-endowed University of Rochester. Alan Valentine will commute from Rochester, N. Y. to Manhattan for directors' meetings, will draw the regular director's fee (normally between $10 and $20 a meeting...
Said Jock Whitney, in announcing his appointment: "The future of .the country ... is closely bound up with the contributions of corporate business to the job of making democracy work. . . . We feel we are adding ... a man who . . . has a practical understanding of present trends...