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...Jews were bitterly at odds over a demand by Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise and his American Jewish Congress for a referendum on whether an all-inclusive agency should be formed to defend Jews' rights. Last week 38 grave Jewish leaders, called together by Merchant Edgar Jonas Kaufmann, assembled in Pittsburgh to talk over a compromise. By day's end they had found one, which was quickly ratified by the four big organizations-American Jewish Congress, American Jewish Committee, Jewish Labor Committee and B'nai B'rith. They agreed to form a joint council to co-ordinate...
Members of the Class of 1938 in charge of the "laboratory" work are Lieutenants Wallace H. Cox, C. G. Davis, John H. Hewitt, Shepard Jerome, Jay W. Kaufmann, Richard G. Labovitz, William P. O'Connor, Jr., Robert Sullivan, and Frederick D. Wright...
...from voting at all. Perhaps by our very silence, the insignificance of these planned and plotted elections will be apparent. You can fool some of the people some of the time . . . but four years of subtle tyranny is too much. Sic semper tyrrannis. T. Ryden Skinner '38. Jay W. Kaufmann...
...note--Under the petitions system all Mr. Kaufmann and Mr. Skinner had to do was to contact 23 of their classmates and obtain the necessary signatures to put any man they wish up for any position...
...Wright build him a house which lies along the prairie in four slim wings. A huge chimney with fireplaces on four sides is in the focal living room. At Bear Run, Pa., Wright has just finished his most beautiful job, "Fallingwater," a house cantilevered over a waterfall for Edgar Kaufmann of Pittsburgh...