Word: felix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...temporary mainsail has been the Soil Conservation Act, discovered in the New Deal's legal lazaretto by two smart Washington correspondents, Felix Belair Jr. of the New York Times and James Russell Wiggins of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Patched by Congress with amendments, it enabled Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to deliver the checks the Farmers wanted-a maximum $400,000,000 worth annually. Whether it has conserved $400,000,000 worth of U. S. soil annually has been beside the political point. But one thing the Soil Conservation Act has not been: an effective tool for crop control...
...Dead Sea closed for the rest of the day. On the same day the New York Times printed in honor of one man three columns of close-packed memorial notices. Demonstrations of sympathy occurred in such far-flung places as London, Jerusalem, Paris. For death had come to Felix Moritz Warburg, 66, banker, philanthropist, recognized leader of U. S. Jews...
Moritz Warburg married Charlotte Oppenheim in Hamburg in the middle of the 19th Century. There were five sons. Felix, Paul, Max and Fritz grew up to be bankers, Aby became a famed art historian. Felix followed Paul to the U. S. and into Kuhn, Loeb & Co., stayed with the company after Paul left to help start the Federal Reserve System. But Felix was less interested in banking than in charity & world Jewry...
Accompanying the announcement of the De Voto lectures was the release that Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, also will give a series of speeches in the spring on a subject to be made public later...
...Warburg's financial help has been the small part of his generosity. His was the princely manner of giving that seeks no glory, but only the satisfaction of intelligent giving. There are few tablets in the Fogg Museum reminding visitors that this or that object was the "Gift of Felix Warburg," but if it were not for him the museum would probably not be there. His gifts were ready as they were needed, to pay a salary or expenses, to support and expedition, or make a timely purchase. And always his vast store of experience and wisdom was at Harvard...