Word: drexel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...KRUSEN Drexel Hill...
Excepting Germany and Russia, the Great Powers acted as if a State had been set up in Angers. They sent their diplomatic envoys, including U. S. Ambassador Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., the Philadelphia socialite who was bombed out of Poland with such éclat. He promptly rented the Château de Plessis-Bourre, one of the handsomest in Angers. This 15th-Century pile is officially a historical monument in which there is no electric light, but Mr. and Mrs. Biddle seemed to enjoy groping among romantic shadows in a former residence of King Louis...
Most fortunate European refugee of the week was Prince Alexander Hohen-Lohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, a naturalized Pole of Austrian-German extraction who fled to Rumania last month with U. S. Ambassador to Poland Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., Mrs. Biddle and her daughter by a previous marriage, Miss Peggy Schulze. In Paris, with U. S. Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt acting as best man, the 21-year-old Prince married 18-year-old Peggy, whose mother is an $85,000,000 copper heiress...
Meanwhile U. S. Ambassador to Poland Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. called in Paris upon new expatriate Polish President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, this act confirming diplomatic recognition, which was also granted by France, Great Britain, Turkey, Sweden, Argentina, Mexico, the Vatican. Turks in Paris proudly recalled that during previous partitions of Poland, when the country appeared defunct for generations at a time, it was customary at the Sultan's Court for the Turkish majordomo, after announcing the names of all guests who had arrived, to shout "and unfortunately the Polish Ambassador is unavoidably absent...
...change was approved by U. S. Secretary-of State Cordell Hull, who officially announced: "Mere seizure of territory . . . does not extinguish the legal existence of a government. . . . For the present at least Mr. [Ambassador to Poland Anthony J. Drexel] Biddle will remain near the government to which he has been accredited...