Word: drexels
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Like Forrestal, Gates came to Government by way of finance. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, Gates entered his millionaire father's investment banking firm, Philadelphia's Drexel & Co. By the time he went to war in 1942 (he served as a Navy intelligence officer), Gates was a partner and well on the way to piling up a fortune of his own. Putting public service ahead of moneymaking, he went to Washington in 1953 to serve as Under Secretary of the Navy, moved up to Secretary of the Navy early in President Eisenhower's second term...
...sponsor of literary pink teas during the '30s, Crichton's political sympathies were shattered by the Stalin-Hitler pact. Turning from somber Karl Marxism to zany Marx Brotherism, he biographed Groucho et al, along with other nonpoliticos such as Risë Stevens, Philadelphia Banker Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle (whose career he transformed into the Broadway hit, The Happiest Millionaire...
...Miles Christi might have rejoiced at the example of Mother Mary Katharine Drexel of the Philadelphia Drexels, founder (in 1891) and first superior general of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People, who gave that order her income from a $14 million trust that she and two sisters inherited from her father, Banker Francis Anthony Drexel, and in her will left the sisters her personal estate of $110,000. She died...