The White House announced the appointment today of Harry F. Guggenheim, president of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, to succeed Noble Brandon Judah of Chicago as Ambassador to Cuba.
Mr. Guggenheim, who is a graduate of Pembroke College, Cambridge, England, was a member of the Committee of Experts which met in Brussels in February 1927 to study the economic consequences of any limitation of air armament which would include civil aeronautics. In 1928 he served as the United States delegate on the Inter-American Commission of Commercial Aviation at the third Pan-American conference held in Washington.
The son of Daniel Guggenheim, he is President of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics founded by his father in 1926 with a $2,500,000 grant. The fund which has been active in almost every phase of aeronautics has given more than $1,200,000 to various universities and engineering societies for academic instruction and for research in aeronautical problems.
Mr. Guggenheim was an official and director in several copper companies from 1913 to 1923 and from 1916 to 1923, a member of the firm of Guggenheim Brothers.
During the war he served as naval aviator in the foreign service of the United States Aviation Forces in France, England and Italy, with the rank of Lieutenant Commander. He is a member of the American Society of International Law and of the American Institute for Mining Engineers. He is forty years old.
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