Word: drexel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ohio Gang: Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff, Philadelphia underworld chief. He is the profession's ablest exponent of the old legal saw for a weak case: "Try the judge, try your opponent, try the police but don't try your client." Once when he had Anthony J. Drexel Biddle as a witness he was afraid that the fact that Mr. Biddle was a capitalist would react unfavorably on the jury. So shrewd Max Steuer instead of asking his occupation phrased his query: "W'hat do you do for occupation?" Said Mr. Biddle blandly: "I'm president...
Wendell Louis Willkie, formerly a partner in the law firm of Weadock & Willkie, was elected president of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., big Morgan-Drexel-Bonbright Utility holding company. Bernard Capen Cobb, who has held both the presidency and chairmanship for the last year, will continue as chairman, the corporation's chief executive post...
Floyd Leslie Carlisle, board chairman of Niagara Hudson Power Co, who marched down from Watertown. N. Y. to Manhattan to become board chairman of Consolidated Gas Co., a director in National City Bank and the most potent man in the Morgan-Drexel-Bonbright utility holding company. United Corp., was elected a director of United Gas Improvement Co., whose Philadelphia. Connecticut and New Jersey properties flank the Morgan system...
...LOUISE DREXEL MORRELL...
...Negro need feel ashamed of liberal arts colleges for the race. . . . The writer, a Protestant Negro, ineligible to attend or teach at New Orleans' Xavier (TIME, Oct. 24), invokes Protestant blessings on the enterprise, thanks God for Mother Katherine Drexel whose Catholic philanthropy promises to give Louisiana Negroes what their State refuses to give...