Word: schiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Natica Nast, daughter of Publisher Conde Nast (Vogue, Vanity Fair, House & Garden); and Gerald F. Warburg, second son of Banker Felix M. Warburg (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), grandson of the late Jacob H. Schiff; in Manhattan. Mr. Warburg was lately divorced in Reno by Marion Bab Warburg...
Pittsburgh: Director Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens of the Carnegie Institute...
...second time in the Institute's history no artists were on the jury of award. Four museum directors-Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens of Pittsburgh, Robert Bartholow Harshe of Chicago, Cuthbert Powell Minnigerode of Washington, Meyric R. Rogers of St. Louis-distributed $3,300 in prizes, as usual had their decisions loudly challenged by art critics...
...well-born Jewess who had been studying nursing and medicine, first visited the squalid East Side and saw a sick woman lying neglected in a stinkhole, she resolved to do something about it. With a friend she moved into the slums. Two years later, in 1895, the late Jacob Schiff was so impressed with Miss Wald's work that he bought her No. 265, a fine house built in the days when Henry Street was fashionable. Miss Wald founded clubs, classes in arts & crafts, English, citizenship. Long before "recreation centres" were known she put swings in the back yard...
...Loeb backed E. H. Harriman against Hill (backed by Morgan) in the struggle for control of the Northern Pacific. Jacob Schiff, dining in London dur ing the Russo-Japanese War, met Korekiyo Takahashi (now at 78 Finance Minister of Japan), and on the strength of an eve ning's conversation became Japan's banker, sold $200,000,000 of her bonds in the U. S. (biggest international loan prior to the World War). Since then K. L. has floated leans for Sweden, Holland, Austria, Argentina, for Antwerp. Paris. Marseilles and many another state and city...