Word: schiff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...More on parade than the parading Scouts last week were Bigwigs who came complacently to watch. Birthday greetings were pronounced by the Duke of Connaught, who was, Scouts had been told, uncle to King George V. English Scouts soon forgot their recent jibes of "millionaires" when Mortimer L. Schiff (Kuhn Loeb & Co.), U. S. Scout vice president, presented a $50,000 check to them, "for the advancement of the British Scout movement...
...Adolph S. Ochs, owner-publisher of the New York Times read his report on the $5,000,000 endowment fund for Hebrew Union College. Impressive was the list of names and donations which Mr. Ochs read. From David, Murry, Solomon and Simon Guggenheim, $500,000; from Mrs. Jacob H. Schiff, Mortimer L. Schiff, Mr. and Mrs. Felix Warburg, $500,000; from Julius Rosenwald $500,000 if the fund reaches $4,000,000 by July 1. Other gifts were from New York's Lieutenant-Governor Herbert H. Lehman; from Simon Lazarus, Benjamin Altheimer. . . . Mr. Ochs, modest, had no intention...
...note of his shaking another hand- less hairy, more skillful-which during the last year has flown airplanes for 1,251 hours without accident of any kind to plane or personnel, and directed 107 individuals to fly successfully. Lt. J. E. Dyer, U. S. N., was awarded the Herbert Schiff Memorial Trophy for safe flying by President Coolidge on December 15. His record exceeds by nearly 500 hours that of any other winner of the trophy. There's a "hand" for you. A. A. DOYLE...
...Brother Paul's connection with Kuhn-Loeb ended in 1914; Brother Felix remained in the Kuhn-Loeb organization. Born in Hamburg, in 1871, Brother Felix came to the U. S. in 1894, married Frieda Schiff, daughter of Jacob H. Schiff, in 1895, has been Kuhn-Loeb partner since 1896, became a U. S. citizen in 1900. He has been conspicuously identified with Jewish charities and with the Palestine movement. In 1925 he gave $500,000 for a Hebrew University in Jerusalem...
Mortimer L. Schiff, Manhattan financier. Reason: "The best interest of the country...