#NewRepublic

People (2)

• Dorothy Payne Whitney Dorothy Payne Whitney, a Whitney heiress, helped found The New Republic, pledged $10,000 a year for ten years to the New School for Social Research, and later developed Dartington Hall with Leonard Elmhirst.
• Michael Whitney Straight Michael Whitney Straight was a Whitney heir and New Republic editor whom Anthony Blunt recruited for Soviet intelligence at Cambridge, and whose 1963 disclosure to the Kennedy administration led to Blunt's confession.