William F. Miller was interim CEO until September of that year, when Whitney G. Lynn became interim president and CEO and then continued to have a succession of CEOs including Dale Fuller and Tod Nielsen.

When the club folded after the 1870 season, Wright was hired by Boston businessman, Ivers Whitney Adams to organize a new team in Boston, and he did, bringing three teammates and the " Red Stockings " nickname along ( Most nicknames were then only nicknames, neither club names nor registered trademarks, so the migration was informal ).

A Synagogue in Sydney serves a small historic Jewish community which was once one of the largest ones in eastern Canada with four shuls: one in Glace Bay, one in New Waterford, one in Whitney Pier, and the one in Sydney.

During his stay in New Guinea, he was invited to accompany the Whitney South Seas Expedition to the Solomon Islands.

Eli Whitney ( December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825 ) was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin.

Eventually in 1972, just one month before his death, Yoakum was given a one-man show at the Whitney Museum in New York City.

In 1974 the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York held a major retrospective of his work, and in 1983 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

She was a choreographer for Whitney Houston's world tour from 1988 – 1992, and also appeared as a dancer in Natalie Cole's video for " Pink Cadillac " in 1988.

A major retrospective exhibition of Lyonel Feininger's work, initially at the Whitney Museum of American Art during June 30-October 16, 2011, was subsequently due to run at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts during January 20 – May 13, 2012.

One of the most advanced reciprocating engines ever made was the 28-cylinder, Pratt & Whitney R-4360 " Wasp Major " radial engine.

Despite objections from shareholders such as Joan Whitney Payson, majority owner Horace Stoneham entered into negotiations with San Francisco officials at around the same time that the Dodgers ' owner Walter O ' Malley was courting the city of Los Angeles.

The track was included on the album Whitney: The Greatest Hits.

Though the Court upheld a law prohibiting the forgery, mutilation, or destruction of draft cards in United States v. O ' Brien,, fearing that burning draft cards would interfere with the " smooth and efficient functioning " of the draft system, the next year, the court handed down its decision in Brandenburg v. Ohio,, expressly overruling Whitney v. California, ( a case in which a woman was imprisoned for aiding the Communist Party ).

William E. Swing the URI Charter was developed through a series of international conferences and consultation with transformative organizational design practitioners David Cooperrider and Diana Whitney.

The civil engineering firm Ammann and Whitney was named lead contractor.

The first game was between the New York / New Jersey Hitmen and the Las Vegas Outlaws at Sam Boyd Stadium in Whitney, Nevada.

One of the most prominent champions of the central route railroad was Asa Whitney ( a distant cousin to cotton gin inventor Eli Whitney ).

Legislation to begin construction of the Pacific Railroad ( called the Memorial of Asa Whitney ) was first introduced to Congress by Representative Zadock Pratt.

Whitney saw a version of the central route completed, although he was not formally involved.

Production capacity in Britain and the United States was improved by the invention of the cotton gin by the American Eli Whitney in 1793.

He was posthumously inducted into the National Museum of Dance's Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame in 2004.

The contractor for the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters was Morton Thiokol ( now part of Alliant Techsystems ), for the external tank, Martin Marietta ( now Lockheed Martin ), and for the Space Shuttle main engines, Rocketdyne ( now Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, part of United Technologies ).

* 1904 – John Hay Whitney, American businessman, publisher, and diplomat, founded J. H.

Businessman Iver Whitney Adams then courted manager Harry Wright and founded the " Boston Red Stockings "

Numerous other new agencies also targeted the medical and morale needs of soldiers, including the United States Christian Commission as well as smaller private agencies such as the Women's Central Association of Relief for Sick and Wounded in the Army ( WCAR ) founded in 1861 by Henry Whitney Bellows, and Dorothea Dix.

New York would remain a one-team town with the New York Yankees until 1962 when Joan Whitney Payson founded the New York Mets and brought National League baseball back to the city.

In 1946, Ammann and Charles Whitney founded the firm Ammann & Whitney.

In 1925, the American rival firm to Wright's radial engine production efforts, Pratt & Whitney, was founded.

In 1994, Anita Borg and Telle Whitney founded the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.

* The Aiken Tennis Club: in Aiken, South Carolina founded in 1898 by William C. Whitney political leader, financier and a key figure in the prominent Whitney family.

Whitney & Company was founded by John Hay Whitney and his partner Benno Schmidt.

The New Republic was founded by Herbert Croly and Walter Lippmann through the financial backing of heiress Dorothy Payne Whitney and her husband, Willard Straight, who maintained majority ownership.

The New York Review was founded by Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein, together with publisher A. Whitney Ellsworth and writer Elizabeth Hardwick, who were backed and encouraged by Epstein's husband, Jason Epstein, a vice president at Random House and editor of Vintage Books, and Hardwick's husband, poet Robert Lowell.

CFA was founded to distribute experimental films or " underground films " such as those of Maya Deren, John and James Whitney, as well as Anger's and Harrington's.

Numerous other new agencies also targeted the medical and morale needs of soldiers, including the United States Christian Commission as well as smaller private agencies such as the Women's Central Association of Relief for Sick and Wounded in the Army ( WCAR ) founded in 1861 by Henry Whitney Bellows, a Unitarian minister, and social reformer Dorothea Dix.

February 1, 1882: Henry Martyn Whitney, who had founded the Pacific Commercial Advertiser in 1856, began placing a " Daily Bulletin " in the window of James Robertson's Honolulu waterfront stationery store.

The organization was founded by Wendy Kopp based on Members of the founding team include value investor Whitney Tilson, U. S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Douglas Shulman and KIPP President and CEO Richard Barth.

The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financial support of Charles Scribner, as a printing press to serve the Princeton community in 1905.

He also met Max Weber, the musician Edgar Varèse, Charles Logasa, John Xcéron, the Whitney sisters, the painters Joseph Stella, David Karfunkle, Marcel Duchamp, and finally the Tawsend couple, who put him in contact with the Society of Independent Artists, founded by Katherine Sophie Dreier, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, among others.

It was founded in 1967 by American vexillologist Whitney Smith and others.

A talented inventor of aviation equipment, Rentschler founded Pratt & Whitney Aircraft.

The airfield, which began operations in 1931, was named after Frederick Brant Rentschler, who founded the aircraft arm of Pratt & Whitney and later founded its current parent company, United Technologies.