Word: drexel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week D. N. B., official Nazi news agency, released the report of an alleged telephone conversation between U. S. Ambassador to France William C. Bullitt and U. S. Ambassador to Poland Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. on the day Russian troops invaded Poland. Who was supposed to have tapped the wires, D. N. B. did not disclose. The conversation...
...extraordinary foils to rough-&-ready Joe Kennedy. In Paris William Bullitt, onetime Philadelphia socialite, dilettante left-winger, champagne-gossip of Europe, consistent Hitler alarmist, has the greater fund of pre-War post-War knowledge, has long been the "closest" to Roosevelt. In Poland, ducking German bombs* was Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, another rich young (42) Philadelphian, who had turned serious diplomat...
Married. Anthony Drexel Duke, 21, grandnephew of tobacco-rich James B. ("Buck") Duke, founder of Duke University; and Alice Noel Rutgers, 19, one of whose forebears was land-rich Colonel Henry Rutgers, benefactor of Rutgers University; in Rumson...
...into a general war (as an enemy): bomb the nation's property, sink its ships, kill its people. Person most intimately concerned last week with keeping the U. S. out of the European war was the tall, athletic, dressy, rich, charming U. S. Ambassador to Poland, Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, who, without training, has proved himself an intelligent, far- sighted diplomat. He could do nothing about U. S. ships, but he quickly moved most U. S. citizens out of killing range, persuaded them to sell their property or move it with them. One citizen he did not move...
Then he met a broker named Drexel (now a fugitive) who got him into the stock market in a small way. In the summer of 1929 Drexel invited the Birds to a summer camp with no telephone. While they were there, Drexel told Bird's secretary that her employer wanted her to arrange a $10,000 loan from the bank. She used her power of attorney to obtain it and Drexel bought $100,000 worth of stock on margin in Bird's name. Before Bird could extricate himself, the crash had come and he was short...