Word: max
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jewish Max Hecksher was a prosperous clothing manufacturer in Hamburg 20 years ago. Aryan Rose Hoga was a maid in his house. When post-War inflation in Germany was about to wipe out thrifty Rose's savings, Herr Hecksher converted her marks into dollars, advised her to go to the U.S. So Rose Hoga started life afresh as a cook in Milwaukee, again saved her money...
Last year she learned that Nazis, having ruined the Hecksher business, had put Max Hecksher in a concentration camp. Rose Hoga went to elderly Harry Bragarnick, a Jewish merchant famed in Milwaukee for his good works. She offered to put up $1,000 of her savings for expenses if he would get the Heckshers and their son Helmut out of Germany. Harry Bragarnick told Rose Hoga to keep her money, got busy himself...
Last week Max Hecksher and his wife arrived in Milwaukee. On the way, they had found a job in London for 17-year-old Helmut. Herr Hecksher, unbroken at 60, had just $2 in his pocket when at last he saw Rose's beaming face upon the station platform. Said he, safe in a furnished room which Rose provided...
...Talmudic maxims must be applied to modern life, are on the docket of a Jewish Court of Justice (Beth Din), which opens this week in Manhattan. The first permanent court of its kind in the U. S., the Beth Din is composed of three black-capped Orthodox rabbis - Max Felshin, Benjamin Fleischer, Reuben Maier-and a secretary, Jacob S. Cohen. It will judge divorce cases, slander suits, business disputes, will decide matters of law which might baffle a single rabbi. For certain grave matters, the rabbis will call in 20 colleagues, to form a small Sanhedrin or 100 rabbis...
Cold-eyed, aggressive Max Gilman joined Packard in 1918 as a truck salesman, was sales manager and vice president of Packard's New York company when he was brought to Detroit in 1932 to serve as Mr. Macauley's right hand in Packard's successful invasion of the medium-price field. Motorman Gilman once crusaded against the bad manners of Manhattan taxi drivers by cruising about the streets in an old touring car and forcing offenders into elevated-railway pillars. His big accomplishment to date: raising the pressure of Packard's gentlemanly dealer organization-which last...