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Chief beneficiaries would be Walter Rothschild, president of Federated's Brooklyn subsidiary, Abraham & Straus, and Federated's famed Lazarus brothers: Fred Jr., $100,000-a-year president; Simon, $100,000-a-year president of Federated's Columbus (Ohio) subsidiary, F. & R. Lazarus & Co.; Robert, $75,000-a-year vice president of F. & R. Lazarus; and Jeffrey, $75,000-a-year vice president of Federated's Cincinnati subsidiary, John Shillito & Co. The plan, said Federated, would provide "those executives with a greater incentive for resourceful and imaginative employment of their skills...
Gloomed venerable Abraham Livingston Gump, head of famed, luxury-lined S. G. Gump & Co.: "Say, we had better look...
...said Abraham Fishgold. "Emphatically, yes," said the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Disabled American Veterans. "Absolutely, yes." said Major General Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service Director. "Definitely, no," said Fishgold's own union (C.I.O.'s Marine & Shipbuilding Workers), supported by the rest of labor. It was an issue loaded with dynamite for postwar labor relations...
...very simple. Abraham Fishgold, 28, got back his job as a welder after being honorably discharged from the Army. But later, men had to be laid off at Brooklyn's Sullivan Dry Dock & Repair Corp. And Fishgold was one of them, because his seniority- including time in the service-was less than that of old hands...
...Scholarly Sort. Everyone agreed, that is, but Sickles himself. He resumed his seat in the House. When Abraham Lincoln, first Republican President of the Union, strode awkwardly into the House and the other Democrats kept their seats in stony silence, Representative Sickles broke ranks to shake the new President's hand. "Why, Mr. Sickles!" exclaimed Lincoln, laughing and delighted, "from what I have heard of the doings at Tammany Hall, I expected you to be a giant of a man, big and broad-shouldered, tall as I am. But instead I find you are quite a scholarly sort...