Word: drexel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., Ambassador to Poland...
Prosperous in war, the Cramps could not thrive in peace. In 1903 they lost control of their yards to the Morgan-Drexel banks, which later passed it on to the Harrimans. During World War I, Cramp's reached its all-time peak with 11,000 workers, built 46 destroyers and five transports in two years. But in an age of disarmament there was no place for Cramp's. Bidding too desperately for Navy business, it lost $5,741,000 in 1926. The next spring the huge 62-acre yards closed their gates...
...over, the trim U. S. passenger-carrying freighter Excalibur of 9,359 tons was on an eight-day voyage across the Atlantic, featuring on her list: "Mr. and Mrs. Windsor . . . the American Ambassador to Italy William Phillips and his daughter . . . the American Ambassador to Poland and Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. ... the American Minister to The Netherlands and Mrs. George A. Gordon...
Last week, all Mr. Hull had heard from him-through Berlin-was that he was still there. For inside news from France, good, grey, softly swearing Mr. Hull was dependent on elegant, inexperienced Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., Ambassador to Poland, who had followed his Polish post, like an outfielder chasing a liner over his head, from Warsaw to Paris, to Bordeaux...