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...friends of Henry Street, Governor Herbert Henry Lehman (who once worked in the Settlement), Alfred Emanuel Smith (whose native Oliver Street is hard by), the late Theodore Roosevelt and Ramsay MacDonald. Last spring, ailing at 66, Miss Wald gave up her post as Head Worker, succeeded Banker Felix Moritz Warburg as president. In announcing that Helen Hall would become Head Worker, Banker Warburg said: "New York is to be congratulated." Born some 35 years ago in Boston, Helen Hall is as professional in manner as most social workers, but more comely. During the War she did Red Cross work, established...
Errett Lobban Cord, automobile & aviation tycoon, was watching an airplane motor on a test block in a Los Angeles shop. The propeller snapped, sheared through a wire netting, knocked him unconscious. At a soaring meet at Elmira, N. Y., Richard Chichester du Pont, 24, son of Vice President Alexis Felix du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. took his father for his first hop in a sailplane. A shift in the wind whipped the heavy glider into a ground loop, spilled it into a clump of bushes. Pilot du Pont & parent were unscratched...
...Harvard Commencement, officially opened by ancient custom by the blue-coated, top-hatted, be-sworded High Sheriff of Middlesex County, Alfred Emanuel Smith was given an LL. D. de gree. To rousing applause Citizen Smith was saluted by a class orator: "Te quoque, Alfrede praestantissime, felix ille miles, quamquam carmina de viis Novi Eboraci cantare non possumus . . . hand minus iuvat salutare...
Only a few Kuhn, Loeb partners were, however, able to brush up their memories. For the first noteworthy fact about Kuhn, Loeb today is that of its eleven partners only two were members of the firm prior to 1928: Felix Warburg, elected 1896, now active only in an advisory capacity, whose chief concern today is with the long tier of filing cabinets containing the desiers of his numberless charities which stand behind his desk in the K. L. office; Otto Kahn, elected 1897, diplomat of the firm, whose numerous public and private appearances, not to mention ill health, have...
...house survives in something more than name for it has always been a family firm. The House of Morgan until, very recent times selected practically all its partners from outside its family. Kuhn, Loeb pursued just the reverse policy. Felix Warburg was son-in-law of Jacob Schiff. Otto Kahn was son-in-law of the late Abraham Wolff (one of the early partners). Since 1931 Felix Warburg's wisecracking Son Frederick, Otto Kahn's twice-married Son Gilbert, have been members of the firm. And Jacob Schiff's Grandson John, only 26 years old, became...