Word: drexel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Walter Chrysler denied that he still had an interest in Pug Knute Hansen, recently battered by one K. 0. Christner. He wished to Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. luck with Pug Rene de Vos, in whom Biddle Jr. purchased an interest ]ast fortnight...
...subject of smart chatter. In the smart restaurants of lower Park Avenue, headwaiters consulted patrons differentially but earnestly. There were two reasons why they did so: Headwaiters yield only to speakeasy owners as shrewd investors; many a headwaiter was acquainted with the young and impressive Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. who was named to head the board of directors of the Jenkins Television Corp...
Such escapades have made Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. popular but they have not, naturally, made him considered a financial authority. While other sound names- Charles G. Dawes, Victor C. Bell, Harris Hammond - were listed on the Jenkins directorate, Wall Street wondered why, if television were now an immediate commercial possibility, General Electric Radio, or some other established power had not helped to back it. There appeared to be, however, a friendly alliance with de Forest of which young Biddle is also chairman...
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. of Manhattan etc. is not to be confused with Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr. who lives in Philadelphia still, guarding jealously the Biddle fame and fortune, both of which were founded by Nicholas Biddle just after the Revolutionary War. Biddle Sr. was once a better boxer than his son; he allowed his proficiency to lead him to a pursuit which he called Athletic Christianity and which he preached around the world...
...Bible class of three men. Soon he inaugurated his own movement, designed to unite the ideas of Sport and of God. In 1912 he held a formal meeting at his Philadelphia house to organize formally "Athletic Christianity," so that any Bible class in the country could become a Drexel Biddle Bible Class and utilize his scheme for keeping young persons near to the churches...