Word: schiffe
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...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...
...respect therefore the Senate can question only the shadow cast by the banking house founded by two solid commission merchants from Cincinnati, Abraham Kuhn and Solomon Loeb-the house reared to greatness by great Jacob Schiff who died...
...house survives in something more than name for it has always been a family firm. The House of Morgan until, very recent times selected practically all its partners from outside its family. Kuhn, Loeb pursued just the reverse policy. Felix Warburg was son-in-law of Jacob Schiff. Otto Kahn was son-in-law of the late Abraham Wolff (one of the early partners). Since 1931 Felix Warburg's wisecracking Son Frederick, Otto Kahn's twice-married Son Gilbert, have been members of the firm. And Jacob Schiff's Grandson John, only 26 years old, became...
...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...
...Julius Forstmann, William Fox, Henry Goldman, W. A. Harriman, Harris Forbes & Co., Henry Heide, George D. Horst, Henry Janssen, Robert Lehman, Nicholas M. Schenck, W. J. (or I; the German capitals are alike) Norton, Gustav Oberlaender, James R. Perkins, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Julius Rosenwald, Samuel Sachs, Mortimer L. Schiff, Henry Schniewind Jr., Paul C. Schnitzler. Richard Schuster, W. B. Scott, James Speyer, Charles P. Taft, Ferdinand Thun, Elisha Walker, Paul M. Warburg, Felix M. Warburg, H. M. Warner, William H. Woodin, Adolph Zukor...