Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard players making the week-end trip include: Thomas Perry, Jr. '36; Theodore P. Robie '38; Richard G. Powell '38; Daniel E. Burbank, Jr. '37; Captain John Dorman '36; Frank W. Vincent '36; 'Thomas Motley, 2nd '33; Thomas N. Hastings '38; Edward Motley, Jr. '36; James A. E. Wood '37; Robert M. Briggs '37; Robert C. Holcombe '37; Bruce K. Fuller '26; Theodore Roosevelt, 3rd. '36; Austin W. Scott, Jr. '37; Sydney T. Dawson, Jr. '36; Robert W. Scott, Jr. '38; Floyd K. Haskell '37; Charles S. Kelley, 3rd. '36; Donald C. Sleeper '38; H. Vaughan Morgan, Jr. '37; James...
...passed the Government to his fellow Radical (actually Conservative) Joaquin Chapaprieta. But all Spain sat up last week when Monarchist Deputies screamed in the Cortes that Lerroux's resignation had come immediately after President Niceto Alcala Zamora received a letter from a Mexican gambler and promoter named Daniel Straus who unfolded a strange and scandalous story of 2,000,000 pesetas worth of bribes to bigwigs of Lerroux's party...
...four unsavory titans of 19th Century Wall Street, by far the meanest and most rascally was Daniel Drew (1797-1879), who was now with, now against rough "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, flamboyant James Fisk, piratical Jay Gould. Born on a farm near Carmel, N. Y., Dan Drew enlisted in the War of 1812, became a cattle drover, later a cattle trader. Sharp-witted, grasping, unscrupulous, he was credited with inventing the "watering" of stock. This trick to up the weight of cattle just before a sale consisted of feeding the animals salt and then giving them all the water they could...
...scoundrel, Dan Drew was finally cornered in 1870, by Gould and Fisk who caused an unexpected rise in Erie shares. Drew's fall thereafter was rapid. In 1876 he was bankrupt, his liabilities exceeding $1,000,000. Old, ignorant and despised, Daniel Drew spent his last years dependent on his son. But he had one consolation-religion. He was a pious Methodist whom Wall Street called "Deacon Dan." In the days of his wealth he endowed Drew Theological Seminary (now University) at Madison, N. J. He also contributed heavily to a young ladies' seminary and three churches near...
...line that "he lived in a different way than ours," that "some of his money was nobly used." Dr. Philip S. Walters, onetime president of Drew University alumni, praised Drew's philanthropies but went so far as to say: "I would not ask you to copy all that Daniel Drew...