Bertram C. Plante, one of the executors of the will of Conrad Hubert, who left $8,000,000 to be distributed to charities by a committee composed of the Messrs. Calvin Coolidge, Al Smith and Julius Rosenwald, revealed that Mr. Hubert was a Jew, his real name having been Horowitz.
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