Word: goelet
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Died. Edith Stuyvesant Dresser Vanderbilt Gerry, 85, widow of Rhode Island's longtime Democratic Senator Peter Goelet Gerry, onetime wife of George Washington Vanderbilt, direct descendant of Nieuw Amsterdam's Peter Stuyvesant; after long illness; in Providence...
Died. Peter Goelet Gerry, 78, longtime (1917-29, 1935-47) Democratic U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, wealthy great-grandson of Elbridge Gerry, a signer of the Declaration of Independence; after long illness; in Providence. His state's first popularly elected Senator, shy Peter Gerry was a staunch New Deal foe, helped organize the opposition that killed F.D.R.'s 1937 Supreme Court packing bill but, as an internationalist, supported New Deal foreign policies...
...recipients of the grants and their chosen schools are: Robert J. Blattner of Lowell and Milwaukee, Wis., St. John's College, Cambridge University; Alvan L. Brody of Dunster and Boston, University of Copenhagen; James C. Chace of Lowell and Fall River, University of Paris; and John Goelet of Lowell and Newport, R.I., School of Oriental Studies, American University at Cairo...
Members of the committee, the full name of which is the "Interim Committee for Council Abolition" are: Merrill O. Young '51, Alexander A. Mactaggart '50, David T. Owsley '51, Bayley F. Mason '51, John Goelet '53, Stephen O. Saxe '51, Hamilton S. Johnson '51, Alfred David '51, Guido Perera '53, James M. Storey...