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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...
...Bananas. Directors of the $25,000,000-in-assets Atlantic Fruit & Sugar Co. are: Samuel F. Pryor of Remington Arms Co.; lanky Vincent Astar; Frederick Baldwin Adams, chairman of Air Reduction Co. and member of the executive committee of U. S. Industrial Alcohol; Percy Avery Rockefeller; Socialite Robert Walton Goelet of Newport; Henry Osborne Havemeyer, also a director of Chase, Kennecott, and International Match; George Herbert Walker, director of American International Corp. and Barnsdall Corp.; Francis Minot Weld, also on the board of Baldwin Locomotive and Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co.; Guy Gary, a director of National City Bank...
...department store building. A Fifth Avenue dress shop known as The Tailored Woman has an eight-year lease which Radio City refuses to buy up. The Radio City building will be built around The Tailored Woman, ready to engulf it soon as the lease expires. The home of Robert Goelet was on the 49th St. corner. He could sell to the Rockefellers, but tore his house down to put up a modernistic office building on the site. He has agreed to build in keeping with the general scheme. Still undecided are the color and type of materials for the sheathing...