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...Jacob A. de Haas, Professor of International Relations at the Harvard Business School, will speak instead of Dean Wallace B. Denham of the Business School at the annual convention of the Associated Harvard Clubs to be held at Hot Springs, Virginia on Thursday...
...black-bearded man whom New Yorkers remembered. But Bloch's strength had not gone with his beard. He spread his arms wide and the orchestra sounded quietly, richly. Then Baritone Schorr, whose father was a cantor, started to intone the Mali Tovu ("How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob"). The chorus rose to one climax after another. Cymbals and tympani triumphed over melancholy woodwinds. In the epilog, Baritone Schorr abandoned Hebrew for English: "May the time not be distant, O God, when Thy Name shall be worshipped in all the Earth. . . ." It was Bloch's way of showing...
...Vincent was at Harvard-where Franklin Roosevelt had been before him -when John Jacob Astor escorted his wife (Vincent's stepmother) to a life boat on the deck of the Titanic, tipped his cap and stepped back among the crowd to meet his Maker. Vincent went to Halifax to claim his father's body, returning, not to Harvard, but to Manhattan. Then & there he graduated to man's estate, although it was several months before his 21st birthday. It became his job to manage the $63,000,000 worth of real estate which his father left, mostly...
...House of Kuhn, Loeb. Built eleven years after a Kuhn, Loeb senior partner, Otto Hermann Kahn, arrived in the U. S. from his German birthplace by way of England, No. 52 houses the great banking firm in only four of its 20 floors. There in his day, shrewd old Jacob Schiff reorganized the big Kuhn, Loeb railroads: Union Pacific, Baltimore & Ohio, Missouri Pacific, Wabash, Chicago & Eastern Illinois...
...that room they will have a hard time finding a man to take Otto Kahn's place-a man with the personality and power to maintain the firm's great prestige. Felix Warburg, last of the old partners, acts today mostly as an adviser. Jerome Jones Hanauer, Jacob Schiff's trusted "inside man," retired last year. Sir William Wiseman is a Briton who has been a partner only five years. Today much of the work is done by Elisha Walker, onetime ally of Amadeo Peter Giannini, and by able Benjamin Buttenwieser, who, as manager of the firm...