Word: schiff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herr Doktor Siegfried Schiff, 66, a Berlin physician, said sternly to reporters on the North Sea Isle of Heligoland, last week, that he was about to take a swim "solely for exercise." Plunging in Herr Doktor Schiff swam completely around Heligoland, about three miles, in 4 hours and 35 minutes...
...Cincinnati Times-Star. Next day, Brother Charles made a gift of $5,000, not to Brother Horace's school, but to the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati. The day after that, Taft School received a gift of $50,000, not from a gentile, but from Mortimer Leo Schiff, Jewish philanthropist, Manhattan banker, whose son John was a graduate of Taft School & Yale. Jews and gentiles were proud of each other...
...gift of Charles Phelps Taft was the largest yet made by a gentile to the Hebrew Union College, which is raising a $5,000,000 endowment fund. Mr. Schiff also gave $50,000 to the Hebrew Union College, as did Henry Morgenthau, Samuel Untermyer, William (cinema) Fox, Mrs. Felix M. Warburg,† Ludwig Vogelstein; Daniel, Murry, Solomon R. Guggenheim. The estate of the late Louis Heineman contributed $150,000 and Adolph (cinema) Zukor gave...
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Lieut. Arthur Gavin, U.S.N., to be presented with the Schiff Memorial Trophy for 1927 (for most hours of flying without accident in Navy planes...