A new organization known as the Jewish Re-Settlements Company, designed to find homes for and to rehabilitate Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany and other countries which have passed discriminatory measures against them, was registered as a corporation here yesterday. Capitalization is not stipulated.
On the board of directors are Sir Robert Waley Cohen, an executive of the Shell Company and vice-president of the United Synagogue; Otto M. Schiff, president of the Jews’ Temporary Shelter; Leonard G. Montefiore, president of the Anglo-Jewish Association and chairman of the industrial committee of the Jewish Board of Guardians, and Miss Hannah F. Cohen, president of the Jewish Board of Guardians and active educational worker.
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