Mayor LaGuardia yesterday declined to assign any specific reason for his recent replacement of Rabbi Louis D. Gross as a member of the Board of Higher Education
“I am aware that there has been some criticism directed against Rabbi Gross,” the Mayor said “However,” he added, “I did not reappoint him simply because I# desire to carry out my own view as to the type of members who should serve on the Board o# Higher Education, I can only make such appointments as vacancies occur.”
The term of Rabbi Gross on the board expired a month ago. On July 22 the Mayor named as his successor Ernest P. Seelman, a well known Brooklyn Jewish attorney and a former associate in law offices of Aldermanic President Bernard S. Deutsch.
Mr. Seelman’s term expires June 30, 1943.
Mayor LaGuardia has on several occasions displaced members of the Board of Higher Education, the Board of Education and library trustees, appointed by Tammany Mayors, with appointees of his own, as vacancies have occurred.
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