Word: drexel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...September day, Watchman John. Drexel, whose duties included guarding the closed Chicago stonecutting plant of St. Louis' big Steven & Son, made an excited long distance call to his employers. "The plant has been stolen," gasped Watchman Drexel. "It's gone." Chicago police, after a look at the dismantled plant, immediately recalled that, two weeks before, the stonecutting firm of T. C. Diener Co. had also reported that their closed plant, consisting of four buildings full of machinery, had been completely razed. Investigation disclosed that both jobs had been done by a crew of Negro workmen. A trail...
...year, aside from the income from his inheritance. He is president of Dominguez Oil Fields Co. which earned $2,000,000 last year, and of Laughlin Filter Corp., a small New Jersey company which manufactures centrifuges. In 1928 Mr. Hammond and Philadelphia's Anthony Joseph Drexel ("Tony") Diddle Jr. were among the directors of Acoustic Products Co., which later became Sonora Products Corp. of America. When Sonora went bankrupt and Irving Trust Co. became its receiver, that Manhattan bank charged that Sonora's directors had personally used an option owned by the. company to buy De Forest Radio...
Recipients of School of Education scholarships will be Henry H. Callard, of Millbrook, Evan R. Collins, of Marion, Robert H. Kroepsch, of Woburn, David E. Barker, of Bangor, Maine, Ernest B. Walston, of Boston, Ray C. Bitterlich, of Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, Mary L. Hudelson, of Pomona, Kansas, and Albert G. Snow, of Blue Hill, Maine
...thought everybody knew that," returned Mrs. Harriman, continuing blithely. "I am vastly interested in Norway, and I hope to carry on the great work done by my predecessor [Anthony J. Drexel ("Tony") Biddle...
Pressing need for better and cheaper food has set in motion widespread agitation, declared Drexel Sprecher 2L, chairman of the group. An efficient organization to make the issues known to the law faculty and to the controlling board of the University is necessary at this time, he stated...