The list of honorary chairmen named to the national committee for Jewish Day at the Century of Progress to be held here on July 3, as announced today, reads like a “Who’s Who in American Jewry.”
The honorary national chairmen are Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of the American Jewish Committee; Mrs. Arthur Brin, president, National Council of Jewish Women; Meyer L. Brown, president, Jewish National Workers’ Alliance of America; Alfred M. Cohen, president, Independent Order of B’nai B’rith; Bernard S. Deutsch, president, American Jewish Congress; Rabbi Wolf Gold, president, Mizrachi Organization of America; Mrs. Samuel Halperin, president, Hadassah; Abraham Herman, president, HIAS of America; Mrs. Rebecca Kohut, president, World Congress of Jewish Women; Charles P. Kramer, president, National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods; Herbert H. Lehman, governor of New York; Louis Lipsky, chairman, American Palestine Campaign; Judge Julian W. Mack, honorary chairman, American Palestine Campaign; Julius L. Meier, governor of Oregon; Louis J. Moss, president, United Synagogue of America; Rabbi Morris Newfield, president, Central Conference of American Rabbis; Morris Rothenberg, president, Zionist Organization of America: Arthur Seligman, governor of New Mexico; Mrs. Hannah G. Solomon, honorary president, National Council of Jewish Women; Mrs. Maurice Steinfeld, president, National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods; B. C. Vladeck, president, ORT Reconstruction Fund; Ludwig Vogelstein, chairman executive board, Union of American Hebrew Congregations; Felix M. Warburg, honorary chairman, American Palestine Campaign, and Dr. Stephen S. Wise, honorary president, American Jewish Congress.
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