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President Roosevelt sends Governor Odell an enclosure from Jacob H. Schiff. Roosevelt will “make the usual answer to it.”
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1904-07-26
President Roosevelt invites Oscar S. Straus to come to Oyster Bay with James Speyer, Jacob H. Schiff, Cornelius Newton Bliss (treasurer of the Republican National Committee), and Elihu Root to see him formally notified of his nomination.
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1904-07-19
President Roosevelt asks Cornelius Newton Bliss whether Oscar S. Straus will support Roosevelt or not. Roosevelt also suggests that Jacob H. Schiff, James Speyer, and Straus should come out to see him, as they represent both the business and Jewish communities.
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1904-07-14
Secretary of State Bacon has read the letters that William Loeb enclosed. Jacob H. Schiff understands that President Roosevelt has done all that he can. Dr. Felix Adler’s letter noted a failed planned massacre. Bacon has kept the Ambassador in the loop and asked that he cable Bacon if further action requires attention.
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1906-07-31
Charles H. Murray, chairman of the New York County Committee, would like General Dodge to serve on the advisory committee as they need strengthening among the “old soldiers.” President Roosevelt agrees and believes Dodge to be an ideal candidate.
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1904-01-23
President Roosevelt did not ask Speyer because that would have meant including Jacob Schiff or hurting his feelings. J. Pierpont Morgan will be “the big representative man of New York.”
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1902-02-01
Augusta Saint-Gaudens has been requested to sell pieces of her husband, Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s work, to King of Italy Victor Emmanuel III, including a portrait of Jacob H. Schiff’s children. She and Schiff decided they would prefer to gift them. However, she does not know the etiquette of writing such a letter and asks Theodore Roosevelt for help. She hopes Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is recovered from her accident.
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1911-11-12
The Jewish Morning Journal states their regretful opinion of the Jewish passport question where Theodore Roosevelt consulted the matter with Oscar S. Straus and believes people who actually understand the matter should have been consulted. The journal recommends the American Jewish Committee as a competent body and individuals such as Louis Marshal, Henry Mayer Goldfogle, William Sulzer, and Elihu Root.
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1911-10-23
Frank B. Kellogg, a member of the Republican National Committee, writes to Republican National Committee Treasurer George Rumsey Sheldon protesting the acceptance of money from the trusts and those who run them. In particular he lists the Standard Oil Company, the Union and Southern Pacific railroads, and the Powder Trust, and names the men he knows who are associated with them. He states that it would be wrong for the Republican Party to take money from any trust when these same trusts are violating the law.
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1908-09-21
Robert P. Porter encloses memoranda regarding the matter he brought to President Roosevelt’s attention yesterday. Roosevelt had said he would take the matter up with Secretary of State Elihu Root and Treasury Secretary George B. Cortelyou. Porter believes that action could bring economic prosperity back to a district that has been hit hard by recession.
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1908-05-28
Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, writes to President Roosevelt regarding the financial situation and the role of Congress. Butler also mentions Jacob H. Schiff, banker.
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1906-01-12
Max J. Kohler expresses his concern that the Jewish Press is making fraudulent statements and collecting large sums of money. Kohler states the paper expects to receive an endorsement letter from President Roosevelt.
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1905-10-25
Isaac Seligman reports on a productive conference with Sergei Vitte, wherein they discussed the mistreatment of Jews in Russia. The conference demanded immediate freedom from persecution for Russian Jews, and Vitte will discuss this with the government assembly.
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1905-08-17
Oscar S. Straus recounts to President Roosevelt a meeting during the Portsmouth Peace Conference between Russian plenipotentiary Sergei Witte and influential American Jews discussing the civil rights of Jews in Russia. Straus also notes the doubts some of the ministers have regarding prospects of peace between Russia and Japan, and encourages Roosevelt to make his sentiments known to them to encourage an agreement.
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1905-08-15
John Callan O’Laughlin reports to President Roosevelt from the peace conference aiming to end the Russo-Japanese War. He notes that some Russians met with influential Jews to discuss treatment of Jews in Russia, but that the Russians did not secure financing for continuing the war. He predicts that Russia will accept some demands, such as the territorial integrity of China and issues regarding railroads, but that they were strongly against paying indemnities or ceding the Island of Sakhalin to Japan.
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1905-08-14
Mabel Thorp Boardman is pleased to invite President Roosevelt to become a member of the American Red Cross. He would join others in his Cabinet who are already members of the District of Columbia chapter.
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1905-05-24
F. Norton Goddard received William Loeb’s telegram advising Goddard that President Roosevelt would like Goddard to go see Frank Wayland Higgins. Higgins is in favor of the appointment of Marcus M. Marks as Postmaster of New York, but does not want to openly recommend him for fear of displeasing Benjamin B. Odell. There is some hesitation among Republicans to nominate Marks due to his being Jewish. Goddard asks for the intervention of Roosevelt into this matter by entering into the conversation via telegram, and discusses the possible involvement of Jacob H. Schiff and Thomas Collier Platt as well. He believes the appointment of Marks would be politically beneficial to the Republican Party.
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1904-10-27
F. Norton Goddard has heard of the recent death of New York Postmaster Cornelius Van Cott. At the risk of going against good taste, he advocates to President Roosevelt for the appointment of Marcus M. Marks as Van Cott’s successor, and relates the various positive traits that Marks possesses, as well as the endorsements that he has received from a variety of people.
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1904-10-25
F. Norton Goddard informs President Roosevelt that he has spoken with a number of people about the potential appointment of Marcus M. Marks to a position with the post office. Many people are in favor of Marks’s appointment, and Goddard believes it would be “a splendid political move.” Goddard believes that making this appointment prior to the election would strengthen the Republican ticket in New York through the support it would engender, and offers to have Marks come visit Roosevelt in Washington, D.C.
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1904-10-27
Governor Odell returns Jacob H. Schiff’s letter. He believes Elihu Root’s letter is an “absolute declination.”
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1904-08-01