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...ungainly boy, was still in school at Newport, Franklin Roosevelt was already a budding young lawyer, working for the Manhattan firm of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn. In that capacity he helped look after many legal details connected with the huge real estate holdings of Vincent's father, John Jacob Astor...
...Rouse Conner, in charge of information for Federal Surplus Relief Corp.. resigned to retain her post as Committeewoman from Kentucky. Others still to resign last week included U. S. Treasurer William Alexander Julian, Committeeman from Ohio; Second Assistant Postmaster General William Washington Howes, Committeeman from South Dakota; John Jacob Thomas, Nebraska State Chairman who holds a job with the Federal Reserve Board; and Mr. Farley himself. Obviously Mr. Farley could not resign as head of the National Committee until he had finished rearranging the Democratic pack. Last week the shuffle began. First card dealt was a new Treasurer...
...jewels. The earliest Rothschilds lived in a double house in Frankfort's Jew Street. They took their name from a red shield which hung outside their part of the house. On the same street, behind the sign of a ship, lived the ancestors of the late great Jacob Schiff whose grandson was last week engaged to a daughter of the great gentile banking house of Baker (see p. 60). The Rothschild invention of branch banking was not made by Amschel on his death bed. It evolved when Nathan, ablest of Mayer's sons, set out for England...
...pastors and reformers in 1910; after an appendectomy; in Pasadena. ¶Died- Adelheid Emma Wilhelmina Theresia, 75, Dowager Queen of The Netherlands, mother of Queen Wilhelmina; of bronchitis; at The Hague. After the death of King William III in 1890. she acted as regent for eight years. Died- Jacob Seibert, 76, arduous and Ciceronian editor of the Commercial & Financial Chronicle, dean of Wall Street weeklies; following an operation for cancer; in Brooklyn, N. Y.¶ Died. Robert Alexander Long, 83, board chairman of Long-Bell Lumber Co., founder of Longview, Wash., model city; after an operation for intestinal obstruction...
...Boston and 1635. When George Fisher Baker was seven years old a German clerk made this entry in the Frankfort-On-Main birth register: "Schiff, Moses, Israelitish citizen, whose wife Clara, nee Niederhofheim, gave birth on Sunday morning, Jan. 10, at 5 o'clock, to a legitimate son-Jacob Henry." The Schiffs were merchants in a city of great Jewish banking houses. Under the same roof but a few doors down from the Schiffs on what was then known as Jew Street was the ancestral home of the Rothschilds (see p. 20). The Frankfort air was heavy with money...