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Though the Roosevelt lead over other candidates was certainly commanding, the nominating convention was still a year away and much could happen in that time. Alfred Emanuel Smith had yet to speak his mind on candidates. John Jacob Raskob's purposes were still obscure. A New York legislative committee had twelve months to investigate Tammany Hall and embarrass its candidate. None of the "favorite sons"-Ohio's Baker and Cox, Maryland's Ritchie, Arkansas' Robinson, Virginia's Byrd, Illinois' Lewis, Tennessee's Hull-had so much as hinted that Governor Roosevelt...
...Schiff's mother was Theresa Loeb. His father was that great Jacob Henry Schiff who gave to the house of Kuhn, Loeb fame equal to Morgan's. Mortimer was graduated from Amherst in 1896, studied railroads in the U. S., banking in 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...
...Phoutrides' Scholarship, Arthur Douropulos '31, of Arlington; the William Reed Scholarship, George Wright Briggs '31, of Taunton; the following seven Stoughton Scholarships: Arthur Goldman 1L, of Mattapan; David Louis Landy 1L, of Boston; Jacob Lewiton 1L, of Dorchester; Wilfred Saul Mirsky 1L, of Dorchester; Alfred Saymour Reinhart 3M, of Dorchester; Solomon Eliazer Shershevsky '31, of Dorchester; and William Alexander Sloane '31, of Dorchester...
...John Jacob Raskob was a Union Leaguer before he quit his party to head the Democratic National Committee...
Engaged. Elizabeth Brinton Kent, daughter of Arthur Atwater Kent (radios) of Philadelphia; and William Laurens Van Alen,* member of the Oxford-Cambridge tennis team which played against Yale-Harvard at Newport in 1929, descendant of the first John Jacob Astor, grandson of the late Ambassador to Italy James J. Van Alen...