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...butler's complaints. Sometimes, if no band came, he played to himself on the flageolet, a sad and wandering air. Then to bed. He had bought real estate with his money-Manhattan real estate was good, and at one time he owned more than anyone except John Jacob Astor-but he never raised a rent or put a tenant out for not paying the rent. When the War came, the government took all his property under the Alien Property Custodian's Act. George Ehret got it back again. When Prohibition came he could not quite believe it. That...
Applications for the Jacob Wertheim Research Fellowship for the Betterment of Industrial Relationships for 1927-1928 may now be sent to the Committee on the Fellowship...
This Fellowship, estabished in 1923, had an endowment of $100,000, the gift of the family of the late Jacob Wertheim The donor stipulated that the income must be used "for the support of original research in the field of industrial cooperation." Its purpose is to enable persons who already have expert knowledge of plans for the betterment of industrial relations to pursue research that may be of general benefit in solving problems in this field...
...very good to know that contemporary to oneself, in the midst of all that may seem mediocre and so much but mere dross, there is at least one great spirit, living and suffering, pondering and creating. In Jacob Wassermann there can be seen a great master in the very process of development. Each new book discovers him with a firmer grasp of the technique of his craft, with clearer vision of moral truth. Paradoxically, although it is not as great a book, "Wedlock" is a distinct improvement upon the "World's Illusion...
Wassermann has a peculiarly contemporary appeal; yet Christian Wahnsschaffe and Eva Sorel, Friedrich and Pia Laudin are universal; Christian Wahnschaffe will always be lost in the wilderness of evil, searching with blind eyes for a remote Justice. Jacob Wassermann will not die with his enemy and victim, "fin de siecle...