Word: radnor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Arminia Rosengarten MacLeod Atterbury, 58, widow of Pennsylvania Railroad's President General William Wallace Atterbury; after long illness; at Radnor...
Married, Margaret Winifred ("Peggy") Dorrance, youngest daughter of the late Founder John Thompson Dorrance of Campbell Soup Co., who left her a monthly income of $10,000; and George W. Strawbridge, Philadelphia department-store scion; at Radnor...
Merchant Johnson, who has helped Samuel Fleisher with a modest project to collect baskets of flowers from sleek Radnor estates to distribute in the Philadelphia slums, became interested in the Cultural Olympics and promised to write a blank check to launch them if Mr. Fleisher would get a solid organization behind him. In Philadelphia no organization is more solid than the University of Pennsylvania and the pair called on President Gates. Not averse to making news or friends during his money drive for the University's 1940 Bicentennial, President Gates last week agreed...
When Campbell Soupmaker John Thompson Dorrance died in 1930 leaving a $100,000,000 estate, two States greedily claimed him as a native son. New Jersey asserted his residence was Cinnaminson Township, N. J.; Pennsylvania protested that he officially lived in Radnor, Pa. First to win out in this long litigation was Pennsylvania which last year received a juicy $14,500,000 slice of inheritance taxes...
...inheritance tax on the $115,000,000 estate of President John Thompson Dorrance of Campbell Soup Co.; in New Jersey's Court of Errors & Appeals, after five years of litigation. Because New Jersey's Soupman Dorrance several years before his death bought a home in Radnor, Pa., his executors have already paid Pennsylvania $15,-000,000 in inheritance taxes...