Word: goelet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majority stockholder is Banker Otto Hermann Kahn. Others: Clarence Hungerford Mackay, Robert Goelet, Frank Gray Griswold, Harry Payne Whitney's estate...
...chief examiner of the Federal Radio Commission recommended that Peter, 20, son of Manhattan Capitalist & Mrs. Robert Goelet, be permitted to re-open his broadcasting station at the family's summer estate at Chester, N. Y. The station was ordered dismantled two weeks after it. was built last autumn because it had not applied for a Federal license. Peter, who lacks technical knowledge and interests himself in program arrangement, devised the call letters KWKY because they appealed to him, had an accomplished girl friend do the actual building. Federal authorities were unaware of the station's existence until newspapers reported...
Manhattan Realestatesman Robert Walton Goelet gave a shoot at Château Sandrincourt, near Paris, for the Duke of Toledo (Alfonso of Spain...
Astonished, pleased and proud were Manhattan Capitalist & Mrs. Robert Goelet when they returned from Europe few weeks ago to discover that their son Peter, 20, had erected a short-wave broadcasting station, KWKY, on their estate at Chester, N. Y. Over it Capitalist Goelet broadcast his views on the Depression, Unemployment, conditions abroad; Mrs. Goelet hers on "Why We Should Repeal the Eighteenth Amendment." Station KWKY hummed merrily until the Federal Radio Commission informed Capitalist Goelet that the unlicensed station was illegal, that it must be dismantled...
...factor in Sherry's and the Sherry-Netherland Hotel, also has a large interest in the Savarin chain of high-grade restaurants in Manhattan. The new Waldorf directors also include such celebrities as General William Wallace Atterbury of Pennsylvania Railroad; Edward Wentworth Beatty of Canadian Pacific; Robert Goelet, Manhattan real estate tycoon; Condé Nast, socialite-publisher; Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. of General Motors...