Word: friedsam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...buildings reached up to Manhattan skies out of the Fifth Avenue district. Nearly all are strident homes of commerce. But the most beautiful is the new Aeolian Hall dedicated to music. So recently decreed the Fifth Avenue Association, wherefore its president, Colonel Michael Friedsam, (also president of B. Altman & Co.) awarded the Aeolian Co. the annual gold medal in token of its building's pre-eminent beauty. Said the Colonel: "This splendid building is a Fifth Avenue-New York message of inspiration and good will to the country. Such structures . . . insure our country the commercial leadership of the world...
...Architect Whitney Warren rose from his chair to deliver remarks appropriate. "The soul is not always in haste, the eye does not always seek the restless gesture of the skyscraper, never attaining its sky. A little rest, a little peace, a simplicity complete, a dream symbolized, as Colonel Michael Friedsam has so fittingly said, by the sounds of lute and viol in castle parks-I hope that the Aeolian Building conveys something of this. In its interior it contains all that modern musical demands may require...
There are many famed Jews -Colonel Friedsam (Altman's, the nice store), H. H.Lehman (finance), Adoph Zukor (cinema). Some are peers of the Straus brothers, but none o'ertops them in the esteem of Manhattan or of the Republic. Monday, Friedsam; Tuesday, Lehman; Wednesday, Straus; Thursday, Zukor-each was. a million-dollar day (except Tuesday, $957,000) and jointly they produced from the pockets of New York City Jews the gallant total of $4,001,335 for Jewish philanthropies...
...Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York made ready plans for four "Million-Dollar-Days" (Nov. 16, 17, 18 and 19), on which Jewish trade committeemen will attempt to extract a total of $4,000,000 for charitable purposes from their brethren. The names of Col. Michael Friedsam (of B. Altman & Co.) and of Arthur Lehman were honorably prefixed to Million-Dollar-Days Nov. 16 and Nov. 17 respectively...
...Michael Friedsam, President B. Altman & Co. LL.D...