Word: drexel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas Newhall, Morgan and Drexel partner, and Joseph Wayne Jr., president of the Philadelphia National Bank were made directors of Baldwin Locomotive Works...
...Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddie, Jr., Daughter Mary of the late Tobacco Tycoon Benjamin Newton Duke, set a record: $77,000 duty on personal foreign purchases (jewelry, clothing, souvenirs), largest individual duty ever paid in U. S. history. (Previous record...
University of Pennsylvania, until 1923, called its chief executives Provosts. Until 1926 Josiah Harmar Penniman held the title of President & Provost. Last week the university again evoked the title of President, conferred it upon Thomas Sovereign Gates, class of 1893, chairman of the Board of Trustees, Morgan partner, Drexel partner, board chairman of Baldwin Locomotive Works, Standard Steel Works, Midvale Co. From now on Tycoon Gates will be in charge of Pennsylvania's worldly goods. Provost Penniman will continue to direct the institution's scholastic affairs...
...other twelve endowed technical schools: Armour Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Clarkson Memorial College of Technology, Drexel Institute, Lewis Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Rose Polytechnic Institute, Stevens Institute of Technology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute...
Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, whose magazines last year made $21,534,265, gave $300,000 to Drexel Institute (Philadelphia) for a ten-story women's dormitory. A trustee of the institution, he has given it $1,400,000 in the last six years...