Word: goelet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...background was another Democrat-Peter Goelet Gerry of Rhode Island, no orator but a great conniver. At his home the President's opponents met secretly, unsuspected. And another Democrat headed the Judiciary Committee which had the bill in charge: Ashurst of Arizona. That elegant obfuscator contributed nobly the second essential of McNary's stratagem: delay...
Married. Maria Virginia Zimbalist, 22, daughter of Violinist Efrem Zimbalist and of onetime Opera Singer Alma Gluck; to Newport & Manhattan Socialite Ogden Goelet, 30; in Manhattan...
...graceful 320-ft. yacht was built at J. & G. Thompson's shipyards, Clydebank, Scotland, painted white, launched as the Mayflower, sold to Manhattan Landlord Ogden Goelet for $1,250,000. Two years later the U. S. Navy bought her for $430,000, ran her as a dispatch & gunboat in Cuban waters. Thereupon the naval auxiliary Mayflower cruised in U. S. waters and abroad, carried such potentates as Edward VII, Kaiser Wilhelm, made history as the signing place of the peace treaty following the Russo-Japanese War. In 1902 she became the Presidential yacht of Roosevelt...
Engaged. Maria Virginia Zimbalist, 22, daughter of Violinist Efrem Zimbalist and of onetime operatic Soprano Alma Gluck, half-sister of Author-Critic Marcia Gluck Davenport; to Ogden Goelet, 30, once-divorced Newport & Manhattan socialite...
Tracing the history of Manhattan's housing problem, the Voice denounces such early settlers as Astor, Wendell, Goelet and Rhinelander, who, the Federal Theatre dramatists fervently proclaim, first grabbed the land and have snugly sat on it ever since. Less through their own foresight than through the industry of the masses, their land increased in value. And the masses got higher rent bills, housing that ran rapidly ramshackle...