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Daniel Guggenheim is a grandson of Simon Guggenheim, a Swiss immigrant, and son of Meyer Guggenheim. He is the second of seven brothers: Isaac, Daniel, Murry, Solomon, Simon, Benjamin, William. Many years ago their father called them together, told them the parable of seven sticks which separately could be broken, but together were unbreakable. He started them in the mining business with a smelter in Colorado. They prospered, engaged the best brains in the mining business, gained control of vast copper mining properties which produced two-fifths of the world's copper supply. When they sold control of Chile...
Gold, Silver, Jewels. In Manhattan, in 1810, when Fifth Avenue was a woodsy suburb, Messrs. Isaac Marquand and Erastus Barton opened a jewelry shop at No. 166 Broadway. A descendant of this store may be seen today in Palm Beach, in Paris, in Manhattan (on Fifth Avenue). The name is now Black, Starr & Frost. Black, Starr & Frost fashioned the Davis Cup for the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association, and for U. S. and European ladies many a rare jewel, notably a $685,000 pink pearl necklace...
...Isaac ("Ike") Bacharach, smartly dressed, ruddy face, sour externally, pleasant internally, is a banking, realty and lumber tycoon of Atlantic City, N. J. A fine mixer and fixer, he is one of Speaker Longworth's closest friends. Much of the practical brains of the Ways & Means Committee (taxes, tariff) repose within his iron-grey head...
...Bleick 1G.B., Isaac Fine 2G.B., G. G. Lehmberg 1G.B., W. E. Lodge 1G.B., A. A. Merrill 2G.B., G. E. Monroe 1G.B., E. J. Murphy 2G.B., D. A. Nesbitt 1G.B., J. C. Westfall 2G.B., W. B. Wilkinson 1G.B., and R. T. Wise 1G.B...
...Author. Born in Boston some 40 years ago, educated conventionally at Harvard, Isaac Goldberg nevertheless displays the versatility characteristic of bright Jews, interested as much in music as in romance? languages he is author of numerous Haldeman-Julius "Little Blue Books" on music and musicians; translator from the Spanish, Portuguese, Yiddish; authority on Spanish-American literature; biographer of such heterogeneous characters as Havelock Ellis, Mencken, Nathan, and now the Topsy-Turvy Twins...