Word: warburgs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Earl Grey, British statesman, a former patient of Dr. Wilmer's, a check; from J. P. Morgan, $100,000; from George F. Baker and George F. Baker Jr., $100,000; from Frank Munsey, Mrs. E. H. Harriman, Julius Rosenwald, Joseph E. Widener, Felix M. Warburg, Samuel Sachs, Benjamin Stern, Mrs. Henry R. Rea, James Speyer and other contributors, came generous gifts...
...long ago, Theodor Fritsch, Editor of the anti-Semitic Hammer, called Max Warburg, head of the Hamburg banking house of that name, a "Secret Kaiser"; accused him and one Dr. Karl Melchior, together with Jewish financiers in general, of sacrificing patriotic interests for their own gain...
...Warburg sued Editor Fritsch. In his evidence, Max Warburg declared that individual Jews had everywhere won influential positions through their ability, but that none exercised or sought to exercise any super-Government control...
Continuing, Herr Warburg said: "My brothers Paul [onetime head of the Federal Reserve Bank] and Felix [financier, member of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Manhattan] are American citizens. Paul holds an office in America equivalent to the presidency of the Reichsbank. Throughout the whole War, he never once saw President Wilson and, therefore, could hardly have controlled the United States Government...
Sponsors for a Radio Music Fund include Clarence H. Mackay, Felix M. Warburg, Frederic Juilliard, A. D. Wilt, Jr. The Central Union Trust Co., Manhattan, has been appointed to take care of the money. WEAF (American Telephone & Telegraph Co., Manhattan) is the chosen station...