Word: drexel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George H. Earle 3rd, rich Philadelphia socialite, contributed handsomely to his friend Franklin Roosevelt's fund in 1932. Next year he sailed off to be Minister to Austria. Last year Minister Earle resigned his post to run for Governor of Pennsylvania. Anthony Joseph Drexel ("Tony") Biddle Jr., rich Philadelphia socialite, contributed handsomely to his friend George Earle's campaign fund. One evening last week after a farewell dinner on the Starlight Roof of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel "Tony" Biddle gratefully gripped Governor Earle's hand.* sailed off to be Minister to Norway (TIME, July...
...first Biddle settled on the banks of the Delaware before William Penn. Now Philadelphia lists some 70 in its Social Register. Most famed of Biddies a quarter-century ago was "Tim O'Biddle," ring name of Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr. Bob Fitzsimmons called him one of the best amateur boxers of his day. In 1908 he stayed four rounds with "Philadelphia Jack" O'Brien. Biddle Sr.'s other great passion was for Christ and somehow mystically he combined the two in a movement called Athletic Christianity. Mixing Bible lessons with boxing bouts, he would tell...
...KING LEHR" AND THE GILDED AGE- Elizabeth Drexel Lehr-Lippincott...
...Paris in 1929 Mrs. Elizabeth Drexel Lehr heard that her husband was dead. To the daughter of Philadelphia Banker Joseph William Drexel, that event meant that the "tragic farce" of a 28-year marriage had ended, that she was now free to tell her story. A bitter, disillusioned book, "King Lehr" is memorable for the lurid light it throws on U. S. Society of the Gilded Age, may confidently be opened as one of the most startling and scandalously intimate records of life among the wealthy yet written by one of them...
...Szechenyi, Hungarian Minister to the Court of St. James's, and of the former Gladys Vanderbilt; and Christopher Guy Heneage Finch-Hatton, Viscount Maidstone, 23, only son of Sir Guy Montagu George Finch-Hatton. 14th Earl of Winchilsea and Earl of Nottingham, and of the former Margaretta Armstrong Drexel of Philadelphia; in London...