Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first administration Washington wished to prevent the formation of political parties. Yet as his term of office drew to a close we see how divergent opinions on the important issues of the day gradually led to the formation of the Federalist and Republican camps, dominated by the two irreconcilables Hamilton and Jefferson. The bitter defeat of the Federalists inaugurated a long period of Republican supremacy coming to a tottering climax in the election of John Quincy Adams over Clay, Crawford, and Jackson. It is in the chapters on the struggles of the Jacksonian era that Mr. Lynch is most successful...
Laggard's Withdrawal, Far behind the great motor companies, partially obscured by their dust, the laggards of the industry in vain attempt to overtake their competitors. Last week one of these laggards drew to a halt, abandoned the race. Stockholders of Gardner Motor Co. Inc. were asked to approve the complete liquidation of their company...
...institution, however, the big news was not deflated by analysis. Drew University, in addition to its 17½% of the residuary, received the ugly brick house outright and that is one of the most valuable pieces in the whole estate. The reason for the favoritism toward Drew was found last week in the ancient records of the Wendel family. Its first president, Dr. John McClintock who died in 1870, was pastor at the Wendels' church and in his biography are two letters to Old J. D. Wendel. Each of eleven Wendels (the first in 1896) had $10,000 memorials established...
...other four: Drew Theological Seminary (renamed Drew University, at Madison, N. J.); St. Christopher's School (Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.); Flower Hospital (homeopathic, Manhattan. N. Y.); Society for the Relief of the Ruptured & Crippled, Manhattan...
Left. By Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel (see p. 26), an estate estimated at more than $100,000,000, to be divided into 200 equal shares (of $500,000 upward) as follows: Flower Hospital, Manhattan, 35 shares; Drew Theological Seminary, 35 shares; St. Christopher's Home for Children, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., 35 shares; New York Society for Relief of Ruptured & Crippled, 35 shares; Nanking (China) M. E. Theological Seminary, 35 shares; M. E. Church Home, Manhattan, 4 shares; National Society for Prevention of Blindness, 5 shares; S. P. C. A. of New York, 5 shares; Northfield Schools, Mass...