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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...
...Robert Goelet, socialite Manhattan banker whose 50-room Newport mansion was a local showplace (and, at taxpaying time, a bottomless rathole), finally gave it away-to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, for a girls' college...
...finest steam yachts of her time, a stately and luxurious craft of 1,780 gross tons. (J. P. Morgan's famed Corsair was 2,181 gross tons.) In 1898 the Navy snapped her up for conversion as an auxiliary war vessel, paying $430,000 to the Ogden Goelet estate. She saw action, took part in the blockade of Havana, chased three Spanish warships, scored a hit on one with a 5-in. shell...