Achievements of the boycott against Nazi goods and the projected plans to extend and increase its effects through a world conference will be revealed by Samuel Untermyer in an address at the dinner being tendered by a group of prominent citizens to Ezekiel Rabinowitz, retiring secretary of the Non – Sectarian Anti – Nazi League, it was announced yesterday by James W. Gerard, former American ambassador to Germany. Gerard is chairman of the dinner which will be held at the Aldine Club, 200 Fifth avenue, next Wednesday evening.
Untermyer is president of the League and president of the World Economic Federation, which is conducting the world-wide boycott of Nazi merchandise, and Gerard is a vice president of the Non-Sectarian League.
Besides Untermyer and Gerard, others who will speak at the dinner are Herman Bernstein, former minister to Albania; Dr. Edward Lawrence Hunt, director of America’s Good Will Union; David A. Brown, publisher of the American Hebrew; Dr. Henry Moskowitz, former Civil Service commissioner, and George Gordon Battle.
Among the prominent men sponsoring the tribute to Rabinowitz, who was one of the organizers of the League, are Aldermanic President Bernard S. Deutsch, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Nathan Straus, Jr., Supreme Court Justice Mitchell May, Frank P. Walsh, Joseph H. Broderick, M. Maldwin Fertig, Magistrate Jonah J. Goldstein, William Guggenheim, Justice Aaron J. Levy, Louis Lipsky, the Rev. Dr. Edward Charles Russell, Samuel C. Lamport, Dr. Benjamin Dubovsky and Louis Myers.
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