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Rhode Island. In his attempt to regain the Senate seat and the high place in Washington society he lost two years ago, Peter Goelet Gerry, Democratic nominee, had the advantage of a smart wife who can speak French. Mrs. Gerry (once Mrs. George Washington Vanderbilt) campaigned for her husband by going into the homes of French-Canadian textile workers in the Blackstone and Pawtuxet valleys to speak to them in their own language. Adroitly she shut the door behind her on newsmen who sought to quote her French. Nominee Gerry's opponent, Republican Senator Jesse Houghton Metcalf, raised...
Sued for Divorce. John Harriman of Manhattan, youthful son of Banker Oliver Harriman, nephew of Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt; by Mrs. Anna Foley Harriman, of Richmond, Va., formerly Mrs. Louis de L'Aigle Munds. Charge: that he had been "notoriously unfaithful...
...line, he inherited a large part of the fortune* founded by his father, William Collins Whitney, Secretary of the Navy under President Cleveland organizer of the Metropolitan Street Railway System (New York) and other traction and rail corporations. In 1890 he married Gertrude, sculptress daughter of the second Cornelius Vanderbilt. His children: Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny ) Whitney, Mrs. Flora Payne (G . MacCullough) Miller, Mrs. Barbara (Barklie McKee) Henry. Among corporations of which he was a director were Mammoth Oil Co., Sinclair Oil Co., Guaranty Trust Co, New York Transportation Co. In 1909 he organized the first international polo team to beat...
...interesting to compare the living conditions in the three most important schools of the University. In Vanderbilt Hall and at the School of Business Administration the students are offered rooms and eating facilities in a congenial environment, calculated to make their term of preparation for professional life as attractive and stimulating as possible. The lot of the law student is quite different. Aside from the negligible fraction who succeed in getting the few available dormitory rooms, the students are forced to shift for themselves. With the closing of the Union at the end of this year the last opportunity...
...forced to live in unattractive rooms and dine in gloomy boarding houses or the ordinary hash slinging cafeteria, such houses would be a godsend. Building sites and money are the difficulties to be overcome. One can only pray for the appearance of some benefactor like Harkness, Baker, and Vanderbilt to provide buildings for the Law School worthy of its importance in the University...