Word: gerard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sails; Enterprise, No. 4, owned by the Vice Commodore Winthrop W. Aldrich and Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt syndicate, with Mr. Vanderbilt sailing her; Weetamoe, owned by Rear Commodore Junius Spencer Morgan's and George Nichols' syndicate, white and bronze, No. i; and the old boats, Gerard Barnes Lambert's Vanitie, and E. Walter Clark's Resolute, both sailed by their owners. There was only one interesting moment-the comparison between Enterprise and Whrlwind on the second tack, the first pointing closer into the wind but Whirlwind showing a fuller mainsail. Enterprise had slipped away...
...five big yachts swept down on the starting line in a bunch, their sails snapping in the smart breeze. Weetamoe and Enterprise kept over toward the Long Island shore where the tide was beginning to ebb and help them along. The race was between them, but Vanitie decided it. Gerard Lambert, at Vanitie's wheel, is a member of the Weetamoe syndicate. Vanitie is Weetamoe's trial horse. So whenever he could in the long thrash on the wind, Lambert slipped up and took Enterprise's wind, letting Weetamoe slip ahead...
...Gerard Jordan Cassedy '33, stroke of the 1933 eight, was elected captain of Harvard's undefeated Freshman crew after practice yesterday. He prepared for Harvard at Noble and Greenough, where he took part in four sports, football, hockey, track and crew. He was a member of the Freshman football squad last fall...
Weetamoe. John Pierpont Morgan was not there, but his son Junius was and so were General Cornelius Vanderbilt and Gerard Lambert, all members of the owning syndicate. Jane Nichols, small granddaughter of Mr. Morgan, had been told to swing the bottle hard, and did, but the Weetamoe stuck. She had been built on the ways and the wood had soaked up some of the grease. For two hours workmen in the Herreshoff yard in Bristol, R. I. hammered, sawed, used jacks. Still the Weetamoe stuck. A squall was coming up, the sun was going down. Workers and christeners went home...
Proud is Founder Addams of the distinguished roll of people who have served in residence at the institution, among them: Prime Minister William. Lyon MacKenzie King of Canada; President Gerard Swope of General Electric Co., who met his wife (Mary Dayton Hill) at Hull-House; Vice President B. E. Hutchinson of Chrysler Corp.; President Walter Gifford of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; Editor Paul Underwood Kellogg of The Survey; Editor William Ludlow Chenery of Cottier's Weekly; Julia Clifford Lathrop, first chief of the U. S. Children's Bureau; Editor Harriet Monroe of Poetry...