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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greatest Schmidt...
...many, Otto is the most distinguished. A noted physician (Chicago, Wurzburg and Vienna), consulting physician to several large hospitals in Chicago, he has been for many years president of the Chicago Historical Society, president of the Inland Yachting Association, but, more important than these, is one of the greatest philanthropists in the country. Quietly he directs amounts, great and small, into channels where the need is most. The money is from the estate of the late Mrs. Seipp, wealthy brewer's widow, Dr. Schmidt's mother-in-law. Also, Dr. Schmidt (born Chicago, 1863) is the leading German...
When Tammany Leader George Washington Olvany resigned six weeks ago (TIME, March 25),'the bitter difference between Tammany and its greatest son was clearly exposed. Tammany said Smith had "the big head"; that his talk about a "New Tammany" cloaked his personal ambition to be President. Smith said Tammany was small-minded; he suspected it had cut his presidential vote in the city for local, selfish ends of its own. Out of politics himself, he wished Tammany would elect as leader some man of wider experience than a district leader- someone like New York's Senator Wagner...
There seemed little enough for the greatest financier to go back to. "If our committee is not already dead," croaked a Japanese delegate, "it is certainly dying with despatch." Most observers concurred, but not indomitable Owen D. Young, chairman of the committee and co-representative of the U. S. with Mr. Morgan, who conferred as often as thrice a day with the "Iron Man" whom most people blame for disrupting the committee, Germany's hard, ungracious Dr. Hjalmar Schacht...
...later was to stay well by him. He was earning $1 weekly as lamplighter for Worcester, Mass., gas lamps. Twice, on cold January nights, he skipped one light on his beat For the first omission he was rebuked; for the second, discharged. Said Mr. Ley, many years after: "The greatest of all virtues is thoroughness. Nothing is ever really done until it is done right. This lesson I learned early in life...