Haym Salomon
Haym Salomon , 1740-85, American Revolutionary financier, b. Lissa (now Leszno), Poland. A Jewish emigrant from Poland, he was imprisoned (1778) by the British in New York City for aiding the Revolutionaries and was condemned to death, but he escaped to Philadelphia. There he started a successful brokerage business. He aided Robert Morris in obtaining loans from France and pledged his own fortune to the new government to maintain its credit. Salomon was never recompensed and he died impoverished.
Bibliography: See biographies by C. E. Russell (1930) and H. M. Fast (1941).
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; ...Philosophy," published in 1930. He had received a doctorate in philosophy at Columbia University in 1923. LUDWIG VON MOOS Swiss President Ludwig von Moos, 80, a former president of Switzerland who also had served as the country's justice minister...
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Ludwig von Moos , 1910-90, Swiss political leader. Entering politics in his native town of Sachseln, he served (1941-46) as its president...
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