Word: drexel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most readers, the value of contemporary reminiscences lies as much in what can be made out dimly between the lines as in what is boldly stated in the text. Last year the reminiscences of Mabel Dodge Luhan (European Experiences) and Elizabeth Drexel Lehr ("King Lehr" and the Gilded Age) were prime examples of such oblique candor. Although both authors revealed an intermittent circumspection, both were sufficiently engrossed in telling their own stories to make indirect admissions of which they appeared to be unaware. Cut in the same pattern as those books, The Countess from Iowa is nevertheless much less interesting...
...DREXEL GODFREY...
...flyer, later that day, spied Mr. Morgan lounging in a wheel chair on a sunny terrace, reading a newspaper. That day also, J. P. Morgan & Co. and Drexel & Co. issued a joint statement of their banking conditions as of June 30. Their total assets...
Engaged. Mrs. Elizabeth Drexel Lehr, 64, daughter of the late, great Philadelphia Financier Joseph William Drexel, widow of famed Socialite Playboy Henry Symes Lehr, of whom she last year wrote a bitter, best-selling biography ("King Lehr" and the Gilded Age) ; and the Baron John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford Decies, 70, representative peer for Ireland in Great Britain, whose first wife was the late Vivien, daughter of George Jay Gould; in Paris...
Arthur Oakes '38, last year's heavyweight champion, who lost to Douglas G. MacLeod '39 in the 165-pound class Thursday afternoon, changed to the 175-pound class and defeated Drexel A. Spreacher of the Law School to gain the title in this event...