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When Mortimer Loeb Schiff was 13 years old he went fishing in the Adirondacks, caught a 23-lb. salmon trout. His father, rich Jacob Henry Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., joyfully cabled the news to friends abroad. Young Mr. Schiff's salmon trout did not help him win a Boy Scout merit badge, for the scouting movement did not reach the U. S. until 20 years later. But in 1910, when Mr. Schiff was 33 years old and an able financier (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), he helped found scouting in the U. S., became a member of the Boy Scout...
...head of the B. S. A., Scout Schiff will find neither novelty nor difficulty in doing his good turn daily. Among his numerous gifts to scouting was $50,000 which he gave Lt. General Sir Robert Baden-Powell at the World Jamboree in England two years ago for the extension of the organization's international work. Outside of Scoutdom, Scout Schiff's good turns have been numerous. He is President of the Jewish Board of Guardians, honorary vice president of the Jewish Social Service Association, second largest subscriber to the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies...
...Averell Harriman, Seymour H. Knox, John Hertz, Victor Emanuel, W. Holden White, John M. Schiff, James A. Farrell Jr., W. H. Nichols...
...mosques and sacred tombs.* Last April Archeologist Pope decided that what the U. S. needed was an American Institute for Persian Art & Archeology, to do learned digging in Per sia, provide scholarships, publish mono graphs. In a few weeks he had dazzled such tycoons and pundits as Mortimer Leo Schiff, Professor Arthur Kingsley, Dr. William R. Valentiner, Percy R. Pyne Jr., Frank Crowninshield, George Dwight Pratt, into accepting posts on the board of directors. Then he left for London with the Institute half organized...
Youngest of the three is John M. Schiff, 26, tall grandson of Jacob Henry Schiff, who is credited with much of Kuhn, Loeb's rise to its present high position in international banking. Son Schiff received a diploma at Yale in 1925, went to Oxford. Later he worked for Bankers Trust Co., then for Missouri Pacific Railroad. He likes horses, entertains quietly on the big Schiff estate at Oyster...