Lewis W. Douglas, Federal director of the budget, will head the list of speakers at the opening dinner of the 1933 appeal of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies to be held next Sunday evening at the Hotel Commodore. The dinner, at which Supreme Court Justice Samuel I. Rosenman will preside, will launch the campaign to complete a budget of $4,200,000 for the support of the Federation’s ninety-one affiliated charitable agencies.
Chairmen of 130 committees, each designed to promote the raising of funds in a specific trade or profession, were announced by Samuel D. Leidesdorf, chairman of the Business Men’s Council, the Federation’s money-raising unit. Membership in the committee will be drawn from an army of 2,500 volunteer workers.
Speakers at the dinner will include former Justice Joseph M. Proskauer, the Federation’s president, and Mrs. Felix M. Warburg, co-chairman of the campaign in the Women’s Division, in addition to Mr. Douglas and Justice Rosenman.
Early responses from civic, business, social and philanthropic leaders indicate that a record number of persons will attend the event. More than 1,200 men and women are expected to be present.
In announcing completion of the list of trade chairmen, Mr. Leidesdorf said: “The enthusiasm with which our chairmen, all men of prominence in their respective fields, volunteered their services makes us extremely hopeful of attaining our goal in this year’s campaign. The responsibility of our institutions to the sick and handicapped, the orphaned and aged, the discouraged and destitute are so great that we dare not fail.”
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