Word: drexel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most prominent of the defensive directors is Anthony Joseph Drexel ("Tony") Biddle Jr., fun-loving socialite-sportsman, more distinguished for social than commercial maneuvers. Divorced last March by Mrs. Mary L. Duke Biddle, who was left more than $50,000,000 by her father, the late Benjamin Newton Duke, brother of the late great Tobacco-Tycoon James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke, Mr. Biddle three months later married Mrs. Margaret A. Schulze, daughter of the late Mining- Tycoon William Boyce Thompson whose estate was valued at $85,000,000. Most prominent of Mr. Biddle's business ventures has been the development...
Married. Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddie Jr., 34, fun-loving Manhattan and Philadelphia socialite-sportsman, divorced secretly last March by Mrs. Mary Duke Biddle, niece of the late great tobacco tycoon James Buchanan ("Buck"') Duke, daughter of the late Benjamin Newton Duke who left her over $50,000,000 in 1929; and Mrs. Margaret Boyce Thompson Schulze, 34, only daughter of the late mining tycoon Col. William Boyce Thompson who died last June (TIME, July 7, 1930) leaving an estate of over $85,000,000: in London...
...many a power and tobacco company; William States Lee, chief engineer of Duke Power Co., who first aided James Buchanan Duke in buying up North Carolina power sites; President William N. Reynolds of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels), who was lately elected to succeed Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle (resigned last year); President Bennette Eugene Geer of Southern Worsted Corp.; Dr. Robert Lee Flowers, secretary-treasurer of the University, and Dr. Watson Smith Rankin, onetime dean of Wake Forest College (N. C.) School of Medicine, director of the hospital and orphanage program. Alternating between Manhattan and North Carolina, the Board...
Divorced. Socialite & Clubman Anthony Joseph ("Tony") Drexel Biddle Jr.; by multimillionairess Mary Duke Biddle, daughter of the late tobacco tycoon, Benjamin Newton Duke; secretly; at Newburgh, N. Y. Corespondent: an unnamed Berlin woman. Mrs. Biddle made a gala of the occasion, led a motorcade of friends to the court...
...looms as the biggest Eastern figure in the electric utility world (TIME, June 9). He and associates control St. Regis Paper, which with its 2,170,000 shares of United Corp. is twice as big a holder as the Bonbright interests, four times as big as the Morgan and Drexel interests. To speak of United Corp. as the Morgan-Bonbright group is no longer correct. It is the Morgan-Bonbright-Carlisle group. And to serve history fully, a fourth name should be added to the hyphenated group, that of Schoellkopf, the family which has been carried to wealth and power...