Word: drexel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heads together. He gives some one absolute charge of every enterprise, however, and holds that one responsible, avoids interfering, keeps close tabs. Nominally Dr. Crocker himself is responsible to a board of ten trustees on which sit Col. Thompson's widow, his daughter, who is Mrs. Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., Frederick Hudson Ecker (Metropolitan Life) and Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lamont. Actually Dr. Crocker and Trustee-Business Manager Fred Pope, onetime Thompson employe, submit an annual budget which the board passes without too hard study...
Stahley's two new colleagues, Crowther and Palm, haven't worked under their future chief quite as much, but both have scouted for him and assisted in spring practice at Westminster. Crowther has been instructor in physical education and line coach at Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, since 1930, while Palm was Lou Little's backfield coach at Georgetown from...
...home of his friend Anthony Joseph Drexel Paul Jr. in swank Radnor, Pa. where he was spending the shank end of his holiday from Harvard, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. climbed into his La Salle coupe late one night last week, rolled off to a dance in Philadelphia. Just outside town he slambanged into a parked automobile, giving its driver several bruised ribs, a cut on the eye. Charged with assault and battery by automobile, the President's third son was allowed to proceed to his dance by taxicab. Next night he appeared in court to explain that...
Left. By the late Col. Anthony Joseph ("Dandy Tony") Drexel, convivial expatriate (TIME, Dec. 24): a life income from $500,000 to Mme Helene Earth, a middle-aged Parisienne...
Died. Anthony Joseph ("Dandy Tony") Drexel, 70, European socialite, onetime Philadelphia banker; of uremia; in Manhattan. In 1893 he gave up inherited partnerships in Philadelphia's Drexel & Co., Paris' Drexel, Harjes & Co., to live in London. Amid $5,000.000 worth of art in his famed Grosvenor Square house he played host to Edward VII & court until 1915, when he moved to Paris following a divorce from Margarita Armstrong. Credited with the remark that the U. S. was "a hole not fit for a gentleman to live in," he stayed away from it until...