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There was divertissement too. Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. gave the leaders tea and Mrs. Walter Rothschild (daughter of Felix Warburg) gave them dinner. In addition there was a great review of 1,500 Girl Scouts of Westchester County, who paraded and cooked their dinners - frankfurters, lamb chops, eggs, potatoes, tea and bread - under observation...
...Felix Warburg, Louis Marshall, William Fox and other rich Jews are on the committee which, with headquarters in Biltmore Hotel, Manhattan, has sent its representatives and its publicity up and down the country - the most intense activity being in Greater New York. "There is one hope for the Jews in Eastern Europe," great posters state; "that hope is in the drive for fifteen million dollars. . . ." Speakers have outlined the purposes, the causes of the campaign...
Money came in fast. Felix Warburg gave $400,000, Herbert Lehman, Mrs. S. W. Straus, Mortimer Schiff gave $50,000 each; Louis Marshall, William Fox, Benjamin Winter made big contributions, and a disabled veteran sent $28 (government allowance for war wounds). Advertisers, art-goods makers, bag-makers, bankers, butter, egg, and dairy firms; chain stores, crockery companies, cloak and suit houses; the dental, the funeral, the grocery, the hosiery, the laundry, millinery, musical and neckwear trades; opticians, pawnbrokers, petticoat cutters, physicians, rubber-goods makers, rabbis, underwear and umbrella manufacturers - all were appraised for definite amounts, all came near to filling...
...Mannesmann Tube Co. of Dusseldorf, Germany, largest steel-tube maker there, last week privately borrowed $5,000,000 in the U. S. through the American & Continental Corp. (U.S.) and M. M. Warburg & Co. (Hamburg, Germany...
Engaged. Paul Felix Warburg, son of Felix M. Warburg, rich Manhattan banker (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), grandson of the late Jacob H. Schiff, capitalist; to Miss Jean Stettheimer of San Francisco...