Word: drexel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...screen sadness produces an equal and opposite reaction, and the audience laughs. That temporarily destroys the soothing effect of Janet Gaynor's voice and the generally superior acting of the cast; but before the end, peace is restored, and one is able to appreciate the picture again. Nancy Drexel and Barry Norton do well as the running mates of the other couple, and Mary Duncan, as the baroness who nearly breaks up the quartet, performs her villainies royally...
Entrance of the Morgan company into the utility field came in January 1929, with the formation of United Corporation, a company established by J. P. Morgan & Co., Drexel & Co. and Bonbright & Co. and with executive offices at 23 Wall St. (Morgan home). By June 29, United Corp. had the following holdings in the following utilities...
...Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle was engaged in an exhibition bayonet contest at a Pitman, N. J., military camp of which he is head. His opponent, acting within the rules of combat, dropped his rifle, seized a dagger, lunged inside the Major's guard, inflicted a flesh wound. Major Biddle continued fighting until his wife intervened...
...Joseph Urban was hired to decorate the interior in rhythmic maroons and greens. A black glass ceiling was placed over the ballroom. A "continental atmosphere" was evoked. Last week the Casino was opened to 600 special guests carefully culled from the Social Register by Anthony Joseph Drexel ("Tony") Biddle Jr., Board Chairman of the corporation and social arbiter of the new Casino. Said Mr. Biddle: "All we wanted to do is something for the public. ... We did it for the city. . . . This place is city property." Collected for the first night were such as Mr. & Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt...
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle...