Word: schiff
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Route to High Finance. These names and others-Schiff, Warburg, Straus, Goldman, Guggenheim, Sachs-form what Stephen Birmingham calls Manhattan's "other Society," the great Jewish families of New York. Their founders, nearly all of them German, arrived in the U.S. in the middle decades of the 19th century. Nearly all of them were desperately poor; but in a young nation willing to reward industry, they succeeded beyond their dreams, along a route that led from peddlers' packs to high finance. Today, their banking and brokerage houses stand like monuments on Wall Street, and there are symbols...
While others were contemplating a second afternoon daily, the existing one went calmly on its way as usual. Dorothy Schiff's liberal New York Post picked up some of the castoffs of the feature-fat W.J.T.: the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service, Columnists Walter Lippmann, Evans and Novak, Art Buchwald-and even right-wing William Buckley Jr. "The New York Post," explained a disclaimer, "recognizing its altered role as the only afternoon newspaper in New York, believes that it is a part of its journalistic duty to convey some expression of viewpoints different from...
...sure, at the urging of New York Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff, the Justice Department has demanded that some of the syndicated columnists who appeared in the now-defunct Herald Tribune be put on the New York market for competitive bidding. Which means that Mrs. Schiff will have the opportunity to try for Lippmann, Alsop, Buchwald, Evans and Novak. Which columnists she wants, she has not said. "I don't know how the hell she can outbid us unless we get a little complacent," says Conniff...
...well, a satellite will be launched into a 500-mile-high polar orbit. It will carry a virtually perfect gyroscope-one that is almost completely free from friction, gravitational pull or magnetic fields. If the general relativity theory is correct, according to calculations made by Stanford University Physicist Leonard Schiff, the gyroscope should precess-change the direction of its axis of rotation-about 1/500th of a degree each year that it is in orbit. This gradual and almost imperceptible change would be caused by the continuous passage of the gyroscope through Einsteinian space, which is "warped" by the earth...
Once again the International Typographical Union flexed its muscle and forced a publisher to back down. After weeks of trying to install a computer that would cut costs and increase the speed of typesetting, the New York Post's Mrs. Dorothy Schiff said that her paper could not meet the "enormous tribute" demanded by the local I.T.U. boss, Bertram Powers. The union insisted on a 50% share in wage savings, but Dolly Schiff balked at any payout so long as the Post is financially rocky-and she chucked the computer...