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Show Mosessohn Will Enforce Square Deal Imagine a man of forty years of age, a lawyer and Journalist, inexperienced inex-perienced in manufacturing or merchandising, mer-chandising, arriving four years ago In New York a stranger, today Invested with czarlike authority as oftlclal arbiter ar-biter of the Associated Dress Industries Indus-tries of America, in which fiOO manufacturers manu-facturers Join heartily with half a million workers and a billion dollars a year of product, yet proposing to rule through ti e sole Influence of mora! suasion and the insistence on business ethics, nnd one has a portrait of David N. Mosessohn, who the other day was chosen for such a position at a salary said to be from $35,000 to $50,000 a year. "The opportunity to be of service," Mr. Mosessohn said, "service for Its own sake, Is satisfying. To correct the abuses will be a task for patient but determined effort. But it must be done. In the name of clean business and social health." The Mosessohn family halls from Portland, Ore. The father, Bev. Dr. N. Mosessohn, a rabbi, is a man of fine culture. Ills sons, Dnvld nnd Moses, attended public school and soon began to supplement the modest salary of their father with a Job press. Atl three studied law. And all three received diplomas from the law school of the University of Oregon at the snme time. The three entered law practice as partners. Dnvld Mosessohn Is president of the corporation which publishes the Jewish Jew-ish Tribune nnd the Hebrew Standard, and his father Is the editor. |