Word: drexel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mercy of Florenz Ziegfeld. Since then he has done about one-third of the scenery for the Metropolitan Opera, all scenery for Ziegfeld. He gradually crept back into architecture. In recent years he has designed the Ziegfeld Theatre, Palm Beach palazzi for Edward Hyatt Hutton, Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., a Gingerbread Castle for Wheatsworth Cracker Co. and the New York School for Social Research, his most successful building to date. Between times he keeps up with his stage work, designs furniture, lace curtains, trunks for Hartman, an automobile for the New Era Motors, and dress fabrics. A convivial soul...
...kite the city's pay checks by postdating them until Jan. 1, when Philadelphia could sell $2,000,000 in bonds to the sinking fund. The kited city checks were to be called "scrip." Banks refused to pour more money down the political sewer. Private banks, like Drexel & Co. (Morgan partnership) would loan nothing until city and county governments were merged, top-heavy governing overhead reduced. In desperation Mayor Mackey's council ordered a raid on the city's sinking fund. The sinking fund has 133 million dollars in banked cash and locked up bonds with which...
Died. Dr. Kenneth Gordon Matheson, 67, president since 1922 of Drexel Institute in Philadelphia, onetime (1906-22) president of Georgia School of Technology; of heart disease; in Bryn Mawr...
...Historical Society in Philadelphia some 200 Biddies assembled to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the arrival in America of William Biddle, who bought a land grant on the shores of the Delaware before William Penn and his colonists arrived. Among the descendants at the celebration was debonair Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., free on a stay of execution from a jail sentence in Manhattan for refusing to answer questions in the bankruptcy case of Sonora Products Co. In the Philadelphia city directory are 132 Biddies, of whom 70 are in the local social register. Most famed living Biddies: retired Banker...
...Drexel Hillster...