Word: keppel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made much of Mrs. George Keppel . . . frequently and openly portrayed in Europe and America as Edward's favorite during the last ten years of his life...
...Repeatedly Alexandra invited Mrs. Keppel to Sandringham...
...night of the fifth of May, 1910, Edward died. Mrs. Keppel had been summoned by Alexandra. The Queen took her hand and led her to the deathbed. There, together, they knelt and prayed...
...John D. Rockefeller Jr. sat at the speakers' table. The gathering was of the Men's Bible Class of the Park Avenue Baptist Church. They were to hear reports of the committee on the new church on Riverside Drive. Close to Mr. Rockefeller were Bruce Barton;* Dr. Frederick P. Keppel, President of the Carnegie Corporation; Alderwoman Mrs. John T. Pratt; Dr. Cornelius Woelfkin, onetime pastor of the congregation; and Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor...
President Keppel of the Carnegie Foundation took occasion to rap the regents of the University of Wisconsin for turning down an offer of a $600,000 endowed medical school from the Rockefeller Foundation (TIME, Aug. 17, Oct. 26). The regents' reason was fear of domination by the donor, and their resolution included all incorporated foundations. Said President Keppel: "It is hard to conceive that a fair-minded man or woman should fail to realize that the broadly co-operative character of these operations offers the most effective safeguard, if safeguard were needed, against any employment of these trust funds...