Celebrating his seventy-sixth birthday this evening at a family dinner at his estate, Greystone, Samuel Untermyer told the Jewish Daily Bulletin reporter that his one great ambition in life is “to see justice done to my people in Germany.”
The man who once received a fee of $775,000 for his part in a $100,000,000 copper merger twenty years ago, is now devoting himself almost exclusively to the furthering of the anti-Nazi boycott of Germany. Foe of power trusts, veteran of the Pujo investigation, he is principally interested in men and events likely to break down the Hitler maltreatment of Jews.
His only message to the Jews of America, he said, was to “have courage”
“Feeling fine” and “going strong,” he declined to comment further on Jewish problems. “My office in the city,” he declared, “is issuing my statement on Ambassador Hans Luther’s propaganda activities in America as reheated in the opening day’s sessions of the Congressional investigation.
Gathered at the festive board celebration were his two sons, their wives, his daughter and her husband, and his grandchildren. The celebration in June is an annual event, although Mr. Untermyer’s birthday is literally March 2. This custom has been in vogue with the Untermyers since the lawyer made it a point of spending his winters at his California estate.
Mr. Untermyer’s sons are Supreme court Justice Irwin Untermyer and Alvin Untermyer. His daughter is Mrs. Stanley L. Richter. The grandchildren present were Louis Putnam Myers, son of Mrs. Richter, and Samuel, Joan and Frank Untermyer, children of the Judge. Samuel Untermyer made the trip to Greystone from Cambridge, where he was graduated today from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Greystone, the Untermyer estate, was the former residence of Samuel J. Tilden, one-time Governor of New York.
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