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Word: drexel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your edition of Oct. 24. on p. 34 there is an excellent story concerning Rev. Mother Katherine (Drexel) and Xavier University. Unfortunately, the following errors have crept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 7, 1932 | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

Pretty Mary Katharine Drexel never forgot about those Indians. Her father Francis Anthony Drexel was busy helping build up the banking fortune started by his father, Anthony Joseph Drexel, but he found time, at the behest of Emma Bouvier, his French second wife, to embrace Roman Catholicism and to bring up his daughters Elizabeth, "Kate," and Louise in quiet piety. Small Daughter Kate he took to see the Pope, and in the early 1880's to Tacoma, Wash, where she secretly gave $100 from her dress allowance for a statue of the Blessed Virgin in an Indian mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For the Tenth Man | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

Katharine Drexel's Uncle Anthony J. ("Dandy Tony") became an international figure, fond of expensive yachts. Cousin Margaretta married the impoverished Viscount Maidstone (now Earl of Winchilsea & Nottingham). Cousin Anthony J. Jr. espoused Marjorie Gould, daughter of gay George Jay and niece of another pious socialite, Helen Gould (Mrs. Finley Johnson Shepard). Other Drexels were much in the world. Not so the daughters of Francis Anthony. Katharine read Helen Hunt Jackson's A Century of Dishonor, toured the West with Elizabeth to find out how Indians were cared for. She found things even worse than the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For the Tenth Man | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

...final vows completed, Katharine Drexel founded with the Pope's approval the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and became their Superior General. She took over the old Drexel house at Torresdale, Pa., later built a motherhouse at Cornwells Heights near Philadelphia. The Sisterhood's motto: "God's greatest work on earth is man. Man's master art is the leading of man to God." There are now 320 sisters. 41 foundations in 18 States. But Indians were not their only concern. Mother Katharine Drexel looked out from her cloister upon what she called "America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For the Tenth Man | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

...looks so much like Woodrow Wilson, defending champion Francis Ouimet, barely saved himself in the last seven holes to qualify with a 151. All the British Walker Cup team but one were eliminated, as were three former titleholders, Jess Sweetser, Max Marston, Harrison Johnston. Perry Hall, 37-year-old Drexel & Co. partner who first played golf six years ago, tied for third at 145. In 36 holes he had no 3-putt greens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Five Farms | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

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