Word: rhode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...Appointed Bishop John Francis Dearden of Pittsburgh archbishop of Detroit to succeed the late Edward Cardinal Mooney, who died in Rome a few hours before the consistory that elected Pope John (TIME, Nov. 3). Rhode Island-born Archbishop Dearden, 51, completed his studies for the priesthood in Rome, served as rector of St. Mary's Seminary in Cleveland before going to Pittsburgh...
...Senator Theodore Green of Rhode Island. LAURA J. SMITH New York City...
...Rhode Island: Ravaged by internecine disputes. Rhode Island's once-muscular Democratic machine wavered in the primary, provided a real flank opening for popular Republican Christopher Del Sesto, 51. whose knife-edged victory over Democrat Dennis J. Roberts, 55. two years ago was reversed on a technicality. This time Republican Del Sesto turned the trick against Roberts, won by better than a knife's edge...
...Rhode Island...