Alexander A. Landesco, New York business man, has been elected vice-president of the American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, which was established in 1924 by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Colonization Association to support free loan societies in Europe. Sir Osmond d’Avigdor Goldsmid, of London, is president of the Foundation.
Landesco, who is affiliated with the banking firm of Lazard Freres, is a member of the organization and Poland committees of the J.D.G. and has spent considerable time in Europe on J.D.C. matters.
A meeting of the Foundation’s Council confirmed appointment of David Schweitzer, of Paris, as one of two managing directors. Schweitzer is now visiting New York. Ncah Aronovici was named vice-director. Dr. Bernhard Kahn and Morris Troper, respectively honorary chairman and chairman of the European Council of the J.D.C., and Rene Mayer, French Jewish leader active in refugee work, were elected new members of the Foundation Council.
The Council, after hearing a report by Managing Director Louis Oungre on the loan societies assisted by the Foundation, decided to send Aronovici to South America to investigate the possibilities of promoting societies there. Tribute was paid at the session to the memory of Meyer Gillis, New York labor leader and Council member who died recently.
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