Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obviously though not expressly aimed at four of the oldest and richest ornaments of the city's business life: Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. (Assets: $636,875,000), Provident Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Philadelphia ($315,543,000), Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Co. ($112,438,000) and the Presbyterian Ministers' Fund for Life Insurance ($26,000,000). Most of these companies' investments and other assets are held at their headquarters in Philadelphia. Protesting that they were mortally threatened, the life insurance companies talked of moving to suburban Ardmore or Bryn Mawr, launched against the tax a high...
...Presbyterian Ministers' Fund, a company which had once before been threatened with diversion of its policyholders' money and had at that time actually moved out of Philadelphia. The occasion was the British occupation of Philadelphia by General William Howe in the Revolution. Chartered in 1759 by Thomas Penn and Richard Penn, Proprietaries and Governors-in-Chief of the Province of Pennsylvania and counties of New Castle, Kent and Sussex upon Delaware, as "The Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children...
...Presbyterian Ministers," the Fund is now the oldest life insurance company in the world...
John Rockefeller Prentice, 34, bachelor Chicago lawyer and grandson of the late John Davison Rockefeller, met Trained Nurse Margaret Montgomery, 27, at Chicago's Presbyterian Hospital when he broke his kneecap in an automobile accident last September. They became ''very dear friends" until recently, when he told her he could see her no oftener than once a week. Late one night last week Nurse Montgomery called him, told him that she had been kidnapped, begged him to come to her in a South Side restaurant. Skeptical, Mr. Prentice called Margaret Montgomery's roommate, who immediately notified...
...last spring by Samuel Robinson, a chain-store pioneer who started in 1891 with Vice President Robert H. Crawford and joint capital of $1,400. He now divides his time between Bryn Mawr and Pasadena, goes in for philanthropy in a quiet way, showering funds on Philadelphia hospitals and Presbyterian bodies. In his pocket he always carries a large supply of religious tracts, each with a $1 bill tucked between the leaves. These he gives to beggars, often following them to retrieve the money if they head for a saloon...