Word: drexel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Joan Kaufman, daughter of Louis Graveraet Kaufman, President of Chatham Phenix National Bank, Manhattan; to George Drexel Biddle, son of Craig Biddle (finance), of Philadelphia; in Manhattan. Flower girls wore frocks copied from Lawrence's portrait of "Pinkie" (TIME...
These and many more events of 1926 were in the minds of scientific gentlemen who thronged, about 1,000 strong, in 15 sections and 43 allied societies, to Drexel Institute, Philadelphia. There their retiring president, Professor Michael Idvorsky Pupin, onetime Serbian shepherd, now oft-honored electro-physicist of Columbia University, greeted them with poetic discourse upon the progress of electrical communication, beginning with James Clerk Maxwell's monograph on magnetism in 1873 and Heinrich Rudolf Hertz's experiments with pulsations in the ether in 1889, through Marconi's practical application of Hertz's discoveries, to modern radio and radiotelephony. Himself...
...Philadelphia Jack O'Brien, a retired gentleman prize fighter, one-time sparring partner of Anthony Drexel Biddle, who made Stanley Ketchel look like a goat, who backed up Tommy Burns, and was knocked out in 1909 by Jack Johnson, conducts an exclusive gymnasium and reducing establishment in Manhattan. He has many rich patrons. Last week one of them, delighted with her reduction, gave a party for him. To that party was bidden the brother of Philadelphia Jack O'Brien?Young Jack O'Brien (born 1895)?who won decisions over Ad Wolgast, K. O. Brown and Young Erne...
...Hawks: J. A. Drexel Biddle, poloist; J. Harry Alexander, President of the Turf and Field Club; W. Hayward Drayton, of the Stock Exchange; Worthington Davis, sometime Harvard footballer; Roswel C. Tripp, banker; Franklin T. Mallory, financier, husband of tennis-playing Molla Bjurstedt Mallory...
...Bowdoin 16 32--Wesleyan 13 48--Hamilton 0 7--M. A. C. 17 13--Union 20 6--Williams 27 144 136 COLGATE 35--Alfred 0 41--Clarkson 0 7--Nebraska 33 49--Hobart 0 42--Providence 0 2--W. Virginia 32 33--Springfield Syracuse 0 209 65 PENNSYLVANIA 52--Drexel 0 34--Ursinus 0 26--Franklin 0 25--Swarthmore 7 10--Columbia 7 27--Virginia 0 6--Lafayette 3 3--Georgetown 0 0--Penn State 0 183 17 BOWDOIN 16--St. Stephen's 0 0--Williams 19 16--Amherst 14 0--Colby 0 13--Bates 0 0--Maine...