Word: rhodes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peter Goelet Gerry of Rhode Island was elected president (TIME...
...Critic Brandes was accused of lack of sympathy for the Allies. In 1921 he declared that Europe was finished and American domination of the world had begun. A man without a church* he wrote "Jesus: A Myth" in 1925 (TIME, Sept. 20). Died. Elbridge Thomas Gerry, 89, father of Rhode Island Senator Peter Goelet Gerry, and grandson of U. S. Vice President Elbridge Gerry, signer of: the Declaration of Independence; of heart failure following a broken hip, in Manhattan. As onetime president of the New York Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, he deplored the fact that he inspired...
Shortly after Leys and Plumer graduated, they decided to have a look at the world, and it was then that the idea of racing completely around it originated. The two set out on the same boat from Newport, Rhode Island, each with $87. Shipping as deck boys, they went through the Panama Canal and up the Pacific Coast to Seattle. They took to the water again, journeying on to Alaska, spending Christmas day in Cordova, loading copper in snow-covered sacks...
...formerly Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt: "I am a busy woman. Last week I was elected president of the Congressional Club [the most important feminine-political-social position in Washington], I manage my onetime husband's large estates in Biltmore, N. C. Since my marriage to Senator Gerry of Rhode Island I go to the Capitol almost half as much as Mrs. Longworth. At balls I have heard it whispered that I dress like an empress...
Harvard States: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, Georgia, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho...