The Senate confirmed to-day President Hoover’s nominations of Mr. George Z. Medalie and Mr. Simon E. Sobeloff, both active workers in Jewish communal affairs, as United States Attorneys for the Southern District of New York and for Maryland respectively.
Mr. Medalie who was born in New York City is 47 years of age. In 1926 he was appointed Special Assistant Attorney-General of the State of New York and placed in charge of election fraud prosecutions, this appointment continuing until 1928, when he was again appointed to prosecute on behalf of the State the indictment against the then Secretary of State of New York. Mr. Medalie is a trustee of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropic Societies and the Hebrew National Orphan Home, a director of the Washington Heights Branch of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association and member of the administrative committee of the American Jewish Congress.
Mr. Sobeloff who is 37 years old, is a native of Baltimore, and has been Deputy City Solicitor for three years. He is a member of B’nai Brith, of whose district grand lodge he is vice-president, and a Director of the Associated Jewish Charities, the Hebrew Home for the Aged and Infirm and the Jewish Court of Arbitration.
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