The largest single campaign in the history of Baltimore’s Associated Jewish Charities and Welfare Fund has been reported by General Co-Chairmen Henry G. Burke and Sidney Lansburgh, Jr. A total of $6,400,000 will be raised in the 1970 campaign according to what was described as “conservative estimates.” That figure is 12.5 percent more than last year when the same contributors gave $5,690,000.
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