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Five successive presidents of the New York Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies will be the guests of honor at a dinner tonight, Sunday, at the Commodore Hotel, when the thirteenth anniversary of the federation will be observed and a membership extension campaign launched.
The men to be honored are Felix M. Warburg. Arthur Lehman, Joseph L. Buttenwieser and Sol M. Stroock, the last president, and Dudley D. Sicher, the incumbent.
Speakers of national prominence will deliver addresses from various cities of the country to be transmitted by long distance telephone. Frederick Brown is chairman of the Citizens’ Committee sponsoring the event. The program will be broadcast from Radio Station WNYC.
Justice Joseph M. Proskauer, of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, will preside. David Sarnoff will be the principal speaker. The men of other cities whose addresses will be transmitted by the telephone, are Louis E. Kirstein, president of the Training School for Jewish Social Work, Boston; William J. Shroder, former president of the National Conference of Jewish Social Service and member of the Cincinnati Board of Education from Cincinnati, and Jddge Horace Stern from Philadelphia.
Two thousand membership extension committee workers in the campaign and delegations from labor, fraternal civic and commercial organizations with which the five guests of honor have been affiliated will attend the dinner.
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