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...Otto Hermann Kahn, once a cashier in a German bank at Carlsruhe, came to the U. S. during the panic of 1893. A few years later he was helping E. H. Harriman reorganize the Union Pacific Railroad. President Roosevelt said of him: 'The soundest economic thinking in this country is now being done by Otto H. Kahn." He sits on the board of directors of the Equitable Trust; Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Mainly he is known for his patronage of the arts?principally the Metropolitan Opera. Last year he endowed the New Playwrights Theatre (Man-hattan). In 1896, he married Addie...
After 22 hours, out of the dense fog that now covered most of Germany the Bremen coasted to earth again back in Dessau. It too had been repulsed by a wall of blackness. Said Pilot Loose: "Nobody could fly in that weather. . . ." Herr Professor Hermann Junkers, grieving but not disconsolate, rushed the preparation of a third plane...
...born in 1872 at Rebrin, Czechoslovakia (then Austria-Hungary) ; was educated in Manhattan (College of the City of New York, Columbia, Jewish Theological Seminary) ; officiated as rabbi in South Africa; succeeded the late Dr. Hermann Adler (1839-1911) as Chief Rabbi...
Cheers. Upon the appearance of the recantation comments?both cheers and jeers broke forth at once. Some potent Jews, including Nathan Straus and Otto Hermann Kahn, resolutely refused to talk. Some cheers...
...Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, publisher...