Word: switz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Gordon Switz was born in East Orange 30 years ago, the son of Theodore Switz, a naturalized Russian. His brother Paul was a star footballer, Yale 1929. Brother Theodore is a chemical economist, employed until recently by Lehman Corp., an investment trust sponsored by the New York banking firm from which Herbert H. Lehman resigned when he became Governor of New York. Robert attended Mercersburg Academy, did not go to college. In 1922 he shipped as a seaman on the S. S. St. Paul in a pair of white linen knickerbockers with $5 in cash. Landing in Hamburg...