Word: moritz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James Warburg, son of the late great Paul Moritz Warburg, no longer sees eye to economic eye with the President. Last week he poured polite but pointed damnation on the economic theories of the three who spoke before him. Mentioning money changers," Mr. Warburg said: "The first time I heard this phrase was when it fell from the lips of the President in his Inaugural Address. I did not like it then. . . . What is a money changer? If it is one who desired to change money, that is to alter money, then I wonder which one of us four...
Stingier than Scotsmen, Swiss taxpayers make it their business to enforce respect for the property of Swiss Federal Railways which they acutely feel to be their own. Last week one Christine Maple, a pretty Los Angeles young woman on her way from St. Moritz to Paris, stanchly resisted the efforts of Swiss passengers to make her take her feet off the opposite seat. When the train pulled into Zurich the enraged Swiss handed her to a Swiss gendarme who handed her to a Swiss judge who fined her 50 Swiss francs...
Last September Hupp Motor Car Corp.'s biggest stockholder, Promoter Archie Moulton Andrews, backed a proxy campaign to oust the entire management of Hupp, particularly Directors Charles Hayden and Moritz Rosenthal who are potent in Hupp affairs. The proxy appeal to stockholders said: "It is sufficient ... to point out one record which shows that the president of your company, during two years, drew $250,000 of salary while the company reported losses in excess of $8,000,000. . . . Large stockholders . . . feel that it is about time that the management of the corporation is brought to the realization that...
...friends of Henry Street, Governor Herbert Henry Lehman (who once worked in the Settlement), Alfred Emanuel Smith (whose native Oliver Street is hard by), the late Theodore Roosevelt and Ramsay MacDonald. Last spring, ailing at 66, Miss Wald gave up her post as Head Worker, succeeded Banker Felix Moritz Warburg as president. In announcing that Helen Hall would become Head Worker, Banker Warburg said: "New York is to be congratulated." Born some 35 years ago in Boston, Helen Hall is as professional in manner as most social workers, but more comely. During the War she did Red Cross work, established...
Fortnight ago Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum announced that Sir Robert Ludwig Mond had given it Charles Sandre's toy army. Sir Robert is a trustee of the Royal Ontario Museum, a brother of the late British nickel tycoon, Alfred Moritz Mond, first Baron Melchett. While the Museum was waiting for the army to arrive, its director, Dr. Charles Trick Currelly, called the colorful collection "effective anti-war propaganda. . . . Just as in arms and armor the diabolical nature of the whole thing is revealed, so we will show the public how Napoleon's gay uniforms...