Word: drexel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went to Harvard, where he roomed in dowdy Kirkland House, concentrated in government, joined Hasty Pudding and Owl. No college athlete, slender George Baker made news in 1936 when he caught a 622-lb. black marlin off Panama. He made news again last summer with his marriage to Frances Drexel Munn, Philadelphia descendant of Astors and Biddies...
...Wally had become one of the best-known and most popular A. E. F. veterans. To the delight of his buddies, this very model of a worthless soldier was awarded a medal of the Purple Heart on special recommendation of General Pershing. Wally returned to the quiet of suburban Drexel Hill, Pa., where he carried on as official cartoonist of the American Legion. This week the scattered staff of The Stars and Stripes prepared for the worst as Wally's daily and Sunday comic strip, "Hoosegow Herman," began to appear in 22 U. S. daily papers, nine Sunday papers...
Married. George Fisher Baker Jr., 22, son & grandson of Manhattan's late great First National bankers; and Frances Drexel Munn, 21, Astor and Biddle descendant; at Roslyn...
Vast United Corp. owns an agglomeration of investments in power properties scattered all over the East. Formed by the Morgan-Bonbright-Drexel interests in 1929, it marked the return of J. P. Morgan & Co. from pure banking to promotional activities. Because United Corp. does not attempt to influence the operating policies of its affiliated power companies, it is a favorite of utility operating men. But this makes no difference to SEC. For, though power companies require heavy capitalizations that make financiers their logical bosses, SEC believes that systems of operating companies pyramided to a peak in Wall Street offer...
Died. Edward Townsend Stotesbury, 89, head of the Philadelphia firm of Drexel & Co. and partner of J. P. Morgan & Co.; of a heart attack; in Whitemarsh Hall, Chestnut Hill, Pa. Financier Stotesbury, after serving as a drummer boy in the Civil War, went to work for the elder Drexel at a salary of $16.60 a month. Lowest estimate of his fortune at death...