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B’nai B’rith Honors 4 for ‘defense of Human Rights’

March 29, 1939
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The New York Lodge of B’nai B’rith tonight honored Mayor LaGuardia, George Rublee, Mgr. Fulton J. Sheen and Victor F. Ridder for “services in defense of human rights.” Harold Korn, president of the lodge, announced at a meeting at Temple Emanu-El the presentation of scrolls of honor to the four. Mr. Ridder, who is ill, sent a message in which he recalled his fight for preservation of Jewish rights in German-American organizations.

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