Schiff, Jacob H. (Jacob Henry), 1847-1920

On behalf of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association, Marcus M. Marks, invites Theodore Roosevelt to the dedication of the new building. Marks hopes Roosevelt will find a day in November that he can be present to speak in favor of the movement and give encouragement through recognition of the work being done. Felix. M. Warburg, president, and Jacob H. Schiff financed the building.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-24

Creator(s)

Marks, Marcus M., 1858-1934

William Loeb is pleased to send Mortimer L. Schiff a ticket for admission to the Blue Room at the Diplomatic Reception, as well as cards for the President’s gallery in the Senate and House of Representatives. Schiff should visit Loeb at noon on Thursday to arrange to see President Roosevelt. Loeb sends his regards to Schiff’s father, Jacob H. Schiff, and wife, Adele Gertrude Schiff.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-29

Creator(s)

Loeb, William, 1866-1937

President Theodore Roosevelt stands on a reviewing stand, holding hat in raised right hand as a large group of capitalists, industrialists, and financiers wearing the tattered clothing of tramps, march past the stand. Some carry placards with such statements as: “Irrigate the Trusts,” “No place to go but the Waldorf,” “We want the earth,” “Free quick lunches,” “Pity the poor banker,” “Dividends or we perish.” At the front of the group, J. P. Morgan carries a wooden bucket labeled “The full water pail.” Caption: “Aggregated wealth largely represented among Parker’s Supporters”–New York Tribune.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904-09-14

Two cameo scenes are separated by a telegraph pole labeled “Western Union.” On the left is a civic meeting claiming that “We must uphold our Public Morals and Civic Decency” where seated on a stage are businessmen labeled “Flagler, Schiff, Jessup [sic], Depew, Rockefeller, Hyde, Morgan [and] Sage.” On the right are the same men sitting in a room where they are straining to hear the report of the “Annual Statement” regarding “Sundry other profits from our Subterranean wires increase this total applicable to dividends by $5,000,000” over the din of coins spilling from a cornucopia connected to a telegraph pole and overflowing a barrel labeled “Western Union Pool Room Receipts.” Visible through a window are many buildings labeled “Pool Room.”

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904-06-01

The wreck of an airship labeled “High Finance” appears at the leading edge of storm clouds labeled “Investigation [and] Merger Decision Law.” The crash has ruined the blades that lifted or propelled the airship, labeled “Over Capitalization, Manipulation, Ship Building Trust, Steel Trust, [and] Northern Securities,” and has brought down six men (“Morgan, Schwab, M’Cook, Harriman, Schiff, [and] Hill”) with the wreckage and two men (“Dresser [and] Nixon”) in a swamp labeled “Ship Trust Receivership.” A lightning bolt labeled “Publicity” flashes from the clouds.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904-04-20

President Roosevelt defends hosting miners and labors leaders from Butte, Montana to lunch at the White House. They were all decent men and Roosevelt does not believe that any of them were involved with strike “outrages.” Some labor unions encourage rioting and violence but that is not sufficient grounds to discriminate against every member of any labor union.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-11-26

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt is happy to help Augusta Saint-Gaudens. He instructs her to write Ambassador Thomas J. O’Brien along with the letter he encloses. She needs to recite what she wrote Roosevelt that she wants to gift the bas-reliefs to Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy and to sell the La Page production to him.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-15

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt introduces Ambassador O’Brien to Augusta Saint-Gaudens, widow of the artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens. He feels strongly about Saint-Gaudens’s work. Augusta wants to gift three bas-reliefs to Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy, which he urges the king to accept.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-15

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

After thinking the matter over, President Roosevelt has spoken with Jacob H. Schiff, with Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou present. Although Roosevelt does not think anything came of the talk, he will tell Robert P. Porter the details when he next sees him.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-04

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt details various strategies for the Republican candidates in the upcoming elections in New York to Lieutenant Governor of New York and New York Republican State Committee Chairman Woodruff. Roosevelt believes William Randolph Hearst will carry votes in Upstate New York, therefore the focus should not be only on the cities.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-10-04

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt believes that the proposition of the editor of the American Hebrew is foolish, and tells Nathan Bijur that the American government has already done everything it could, “consistently with our own self-respect and with the advantage of the Russian Jews.” The public agitation for further action, “represents not an effective purpose to do good to those who are suffering in Russia, but to exploit, in the interest of entirely selfish individuals, the Jewish vote in America.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-07-11

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks French Ambassador Jusserand for the book and newspaper clipping. Roosevelt comments that he does not know who Louis Friedman is, and was not shown any telegram from him. Roosevelt enjoyed spending time with Jusserand and his wife, Elise Richards Jusserand, recently, and hopes that they enjoy their vacation.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-06-27

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt suggests that, on behalf of the Red Cross Association, Mabel Thorp Boardman send an auditor to San Francisco to keep track of expenditures for disaster relief in the city. Roosevelt does not want to impede immediate relief to the city, but warns that after the emergency “there will be plenty of fools and plenty of knaves to make accusations against us, and plenty of good people who will believe them.” It would be beneficial, therefore, to have a clear accounting of what has been done, and with what resources.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-04-22

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt clarifies for Nicholas Murray Butler what he meant when he wrote him regarding Jacob H. Schiff’s recent speech about the currency question. Schiff was correct about the danger, but he did more harm than good with his speech by criticizing the remedy suggested by Treasury Secretary Leslie M. Shaw, making it harder for any action to be taken.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-12

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt informs Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler that Jacob H. Schiff’s speech has “fallen absolutely flat;” that no Senator or Congressman has been influenced; and “the great majority of the business men” who write him have warned him not to pay attention to it. Roosevelt does not believe that anything can be done about currency legislation during this session of Congress, but he wants to make “a resolute effort” next session.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-10

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt tells Oscar S. Straus he expressed his feelings on the subjects he wrote about. He encloses a copy of his letter to Jacob H. Schiff regarding concerns about the treatment of Jewish people in Russia.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-12-14

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks Nicholas Murray Butler for the information about Lieutenant Governor Higgins. He asks Butler to find out, through Jacob H. Schiff, about Marcus M. Marks in whom F. Norton Goddard is interested for postmaster.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-28

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt agrees that Secretary of State Hay should send the correspondence to George B. Cortelyou. He believes the McCormick note may do some good if published. Hay should ask Cortelyou to consult several people, including Oscar S. Straus, Nathan Bijur, and Jacob H. Schiff. If he does, Roosevelt also suggests that Hay send notes to each of them, telling them he instructed Cortelyou to consult them, as they would be flattered to hear of it. Roosevelt has done as Hay suggested regarding Peru and Ecuador.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-09-10

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt has sent Oscar S. Straus a draft of what he has written about the passport question for his letter of acceptance. Roosevelt has also sent copies to Jacob H. Schiff and Nathan Bijur.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-05

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks Nathan Bijur for his recent letter and asks Bijur to review and make suggestions to his enclosed preliminary letter of acceptance. Roosevelt has also sent copies to Oscar S. Straus and Jacob H. Schiff for review.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-05

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919