Word: goelet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. George Victor Robert John Innes-Ker, 22, 9th Duke of Roxburghe, Premier Baronet of Scotland, rich grandson of the late, rich Ogden Goelet of Newport; and Lady Mary Crewe-Milnes, 20, youngest daughter of the Marquess of Crewe; in London...
Grand Duke Boris said Newport society was the most luxurious he had ever seen. His visit brought to a head the quarrel between Mrs. Goelet and Mrs. Fish, who were fighting over young Jimmie Cutting. Mrs. Goelet entertained the Grand Duke at her home. Mrs. Fish invited guests to meet the Grand Duke at a dinner and ball, but refused to include Jimmie Cutting. Mrs. Goelet demanded that he be invited. Mrs. Fish refused. Mrs. Goelet therefore would not let the Grand Duke attend the Fish party given in his honor. Unwilling to disappoint guests anxious to see royalty, Harry...
...most of downtown Providence thought him a "swell fellow." He had a fine seashore house on nearby Warwick Neck, a spacious Dutch Colonial mansion with weather-stained shingles and white columns only a field away from the estate of Rhode Island's rich U. S. Senator Peter Goelet Gerry. Also nearby was the swank yacht-going Warwick Country Club, to which belong John D. Rockefeller Jr., Harold S. Vanderbilt, many another bigwig. Senator Gerry and club members often graced Neighbor Rettich's lawn parties with their presence...
...Coughlin rules the waves, people who still own million-dollar nests at Newport speak of them apologetically, if at all, and hope furtively that no one will noise it about. While the gleaming Taj Mahals still stand in not-so-mute testimony of the glory that was Ogden Goelet's, Cornelius Vanderbilt's, and Oliver Belmont's, most of the notables of Newport have packed up the family jewels and scandals and gone off in search of simpler dwelling-places on the coasts, of Maine. Not only did conscience-stricken Ogden Mills sell his Newport place last year in preparation...
...past year President Percy Hampton Johnston reported earnings of $7,700,000 as against $8,300,000 in 1933. He introduced to little Chemical stockholders the biggest Chemical stockholder (Robert Walton Goelet) and the second biggest (John Mortimer Schiff). And like the old-school banker and Southern gentleman that he is, Mr. Johnston grumbled considerably about the current scene. Samples...