Abram I. Elkus, honorary chairman of the New York Wider Scope Committee of the Independent Order B’nai Brith, yesterday announced the appointment of a committee of sponsors for a dinner which will be given on April 15, at the Hotel Astor. The dinner will be given for the Hillel Foundation of the I.O.B.B.
Dr. Edward Chauncey Baldwin, Professor of English Literature at the University of Illinois, will be one of the principal speakers of the Hillel night, which will be observed at the dinner. Alfred M. Cohen, president of the order, Rabbi Nathan Krass of Temple Emanu-el, and Maurice P. Davdson, chairman of the New York Wider Scope Committee will be the other speakers.
The committee of sponsors announced by Mr. Elkus include: Harry I. Arrow, Clarence G. Bachrach, Congressman Sol Bloom, Bernhard Bloch, Benjamin Blattner, Meyer Bloomfield, Dr. Jules Blumenthal, Herman Brickman, Theodore Badman, Daniel Beck, Congressman E. Celler, A. Broderick Cohen, Philip Cowen, Wm. W. Cohen, Rabbi Simon R. Cohen, Maurice P. Davidson, Samuel Dickstein, Mrs. Emily K. Duschnes, Isaac Dishy, Sol. W. Eckstein, Louis Fabricant, Jessica Feldberg. Boris Fingerhood, Harry Fischel, Col. Michael Friedsam, Albert A. Friedlander, Hon. Alfred Frankenthaler. Michael Furst, S. Herbert Golden, Commissioner Albert Goldman, Jonah J. Goldstein, Richard A. Guinzburg, Charles Hartman, Jacob I. Horowitz, Rev. Dr. Gustav N. Hausmann, Simon Hirsdansky, Mrs. Alexander Kohut, Mrs. Anna Moskowitz Kross, Arthur K. Kuhn, Dr. Raphael Kurzrok, Herbert N. Lehman, I. Montefiore Levy, Julius Levy, Ralph J. Levy, Joseph Love, Elijah Levy, Eugene Levy, Judge Irving Lehman, Ben. F. Lesk, Rabbi Samuel J. Levinson, A. Landesco, Julius Miller, David N. Mossessohn, Henry Morgenthau, Albert Matarasso, Morris B. Moskowitz, Grover M. Moscowitz, Mrs. Henry Moskowitz, Louis Osterweis, Dr. A. Palitz, David L. Podell, Mrs. Joseph M. Proskauer, Harold Riegelman, Joseph Rosenzweig, Irving Rosenzweig, Samuel Rottnberg, L. E. Schiechter, Mrs. Harry L. Smith. Harold Spielberg, Rev. Dr. Nathan Stern, Rabbi Samuel Schulman, Joel E. Sammet, Judge Myron Sulzberger, Mrs. S. W. Straus, Mrs. Estelle M. Sternberger, Mrs. Oswald Schleckow, Samuel Untermyer, Herman Vogel, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise.
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