Word: warburgs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side of University Platz, contains an elaborate "senate" room. It is the gift of 37 Americans in recognition of "Heidelberg's helpful service to our culture, science and civilization." Donors whose names were inscribed in a marble tablet included: John Davison Rockefeller Jr., James Speyer, Paul Moritz Warburg, William Averell Harriman, Walter Percy Chrysler, William Fox. The Lord Mayor of Heidelberg announced that the city council had voted to name one of the town's streets Schurmanstrasse. The Gold Honor Plaque of the City of Baden was bestowed on Mr. Schurman by officials of that city...
...Europe. On the first day of the 20th Century he was made a partner in the firm. Many times a millionaire, he was active in philanthropy, a collector of art treasures. His death left only nine partners in his firm, an unusually small roster. They are: Felix Moritz Warburg, Otto Hermann Kahn, Jerome J. Hanauer, George W. Bovenizer, Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, Sir William Wiseman, John M. Schiff, Gilbert Wolff Kahn and Frederick M. Warburg...
...Warburg '20, noted collector and connaisseur, has loaned three tapestries from the "Credo" series, of which only 15 items are known to be in existence, one in the Fine Arts Museum of Boston. They date from the late Fifteenth Century, and are of the best type of Flemmish workmanship...
...again. Cause of the crisis was the near failure of Osterreichische Kreditanstalt, the great Vienna bank founded 86 years ago by the House of Rothschild. On its board of directors today sit representatives of the Bank of England, Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co., Schneider & Cie of Paris, M. M. Warburg & Co. of Hamburg...
Newton Diehl Baker was succeeded as president of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation by onetime U. S. Ambassador to Japan Roland Sletor Morris and as president of the American Association for Adult Education by Banker Felix M. Warburg...