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Route to High Finance. These names and others-Schiff, Warburg, Straus, Goldman, Guggenheim, Sachs-form what Stephen Birmingham calls Manhattan's "other Society," the great Jewish families of New York. Their founders, nearly all of them German, arrived in the U.S. in the middle decades of the 19th century. Nearly all of them were desperately poor; but in a young nation willing to reward industry, they succeeded beyond their dreams, along a route that led from peddlers' packs to high finance. Today, their banking and brokerage houses stand like monuments on Wall Street, and there are symbols...
...rates have rebounded more than two-thirds of the way back to their 1966 heights. If the rise in interest rates continues, as many analysts expect, it can only siphon funds away from mortgages again. Warns John G. Heimann, vice president of the Manhattan investment-banking firm of E.M. Warburg and mortgage consultant to Housing Secretary Robert C. Weaver: "The fragmented, highly specialized mortgage system, responsible to so many agencies, has fallen behind, never to catch...
...John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, delivered his first major address on the war in Vietnam last week at "Negotiations Now: A National Citizens Campaign to End the War in Vietnam," in Washington...
...James P. Warburg, the well known writer on economic and political affairs, and former Assistant Secretary of Defense...
Speaking at Sanders Theatre will be John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics; John K. Fairbank '29, director of the East Asian Research Center; Stanley H. Hoffman, professor of Government; and Jerome A. Cohen, professor...