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...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...
...honor. Felix Hebert hoped to be re-elected to the U. S. Senate, not as a Republican, not as a passionate music lover, but as a skunkhunter. Nonetheless Rhode Island turned to a onetime polo player and yachtsman, the present husband of George W. Vanderbilt's widow-Peter Goelet Gerry who served in the Senate from...
...most distinguished pillars of the Democratic Party in Rhode Island is Mr. Peter Goelet Gerry. He is a graduate of Harvard, a member of the bar, the husband of the onetime Edith Stuyvesant Vanderbilt. But for the fact that 1928 was a very Republican year Mr. Gerry would probably still be a member...