Mortimer Fleishacker, leading Jewish communal and civic worker on the Pacific coast, has been named a member of the National Citizens Commitee for Welfare and Relief Mobilization.
There are four Jewish members of the committee in all the others being Felix M. Warburg. Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver and Lillian D. Wald.
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