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HERE LIES tuberculous Isador Fisch in a New Jersey thicket in 1929. One of Hauptmann's oldest friends, he died in destitution last March in Leipzig. He and Hauptmann dealt in furs from time to time. Fisch's friends in The Bronx knew him as penniless. Hauptmann's story as to how he came by the Lindbergh ransom money was that Fisch left it with him, told him it was "old letters." When Fisch died, Hauptmann said he discovered the cash, appropriated it to satisfy an unpaid $7,500 loan...
Secretary of Interior Ickes has Nathan R. Margold, Harvard Law School graduate, as his solicitor, and Robert D. Kohn as his director of PWA housing. Madam Secretary Perkins has two able Jewish helpers, Isador Lubin Jr. as labor statistician and Charles E. Wyzanski Jr. as solicitor. Lawyer Wyzanski has spent most of his 28 years winning prizes: as a high school boy, from the Daughters of the American Revolution; as a student at Phillips Exeter, the Walter Hines Page, Merrill and Teschemacher prizes (all in one year) and a four-year scholarship at Harvard; as a junior at Harvard...
...world knows by now the top men in President Roosevelt's Brain Trust -George F. Warren, James Harvey Rogers, Rexford Guy Tugwell, Mordecai Ezekiel, John Dickinson, Francis B. Sayre, Willard L. Thorp, Isador Lubin, Milburn L. Wilson, William I. Myers. Below this top layer of the Brain Trust, however, are scores & scores of young unknowns in almost every department of the Government. Underlings on the payroll who rarely if ever see their President, they do most of the New Deal spade work for which their superiors in the spotlight get the credit. Some are assistant professors with new economic...
...gropes for words. In five months Madam Secretary Perkins has started an elaborate investigation by distinguished citizens to improve the Immigration Bureau; organized the new Federal Employment Service; launched a thoroughgoing survey of the shirt industry to weed out sweatshops; jacked up the Labor Statistics Bureau by appointing able Isador Lubin of Brookings Institute as its chief; secured the services of Charles Wyzanski Jr., onetime editor of the Harvard Law Review, as her solicitor. By her non-political appointments she has done much to raise the tone of her department from the low level to which it had dropped under...
...Lobenstine 2L, former Princeton fencer, won second place after a fence-off with Isador Miller '35, while G. M. Yatsovitch '33, Second Varsity foils man took fourth...