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42:(1847–1920), a German-born New York investment banker. In 1896, at the age of twenty-one, he immigrated to London, where he became a partner in the merchant banking firm Bourke, Schiff and Co. His younger brother Ernst followed. Together, in the First World War, the brothers ran shelters for
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