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Box 2

 Container

Contains 15 Results:

Chronological File, 1933

 File — Box: 2
Accession: 2173Identifier: 2173-I.-A.-1.
Scope and Content:

clippings including those from the Financial Post; correspondence with and about Harry Hatch and SDL Scotland and possible SDL deal with Samuel Bronfman (January); and personal correspondence between Sam and Saidye (September)

Dates: 1933

Chronological File, 1934

 File — Box: 2
Accession: 2173Identifier: 2173-I.-A.-1.
Scope and Content:

clippings including those from the Financial Post; declaration regarding Joseph Reinfeld (February); correspondence and subpoena regarding Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) investigation claiming unpaid excise taxes (November); and clippings about the case and initial efforts by the U.S. Treasury to collect taxes on liquor imported into the U.S. during prohibition (December)

Dates: 1934

Chronological File, 1935

 File — Box: 2
Accession: 2173Identifier: 2173-I.-A.-1.
Scope and Content:

Case file contains records regarding charges of smuggling into the U.S. by the Bronfman brothers, brother-in-law Barney Aaron and 54 others

Dates: 1935

Chronological File, 1935

 File — Box: 2
Accession: 2173Identifier: 2173-I.-A.-1.
Scope and Content:

clippings including those from the Financial Post; transcript of news service stories and papers from the trial described above; and transcript of conversation between Ministers William Herridge and Henry Morganthau, Jr. (August)

Dates: 1935

Chronological File, 1936

 File — Box: 2
Accession: 2173Identifier: 2173-I.-A.-1.
Scope and Content:

clippings and materials relating to Brintcan investments and taxes

Dates: 1936

Chronological File, 1938

 File — Box: 2
Accession: 2173Identifier: 2173-I.-A.-1.
Scope and Content:

clippings and correspondence; minutes of the Refugee Committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress

Dates: 1938

Chronological File, 1939

 File — Box: 2
Accession: 2173Identifier: 2173-I.-A.-1.
Scope and Content:

clippings and correspondence; statement of annual activities of the Canadian Jewish Congress; speech given by Sam Bronfman following his election as president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, January, 23; and “A Message to the Jews of Canada” from Sam Bronfman regarding World War II and Hitler (October)

Dates: 1939

Chronological File, 1940

 File — Box: 2
Accession: 2173Identifier: 2173-I.-A.-1.
Scope and Content:

speech delivered at the Annual Regional Conference - Central Division of the Canadian Jewish Congress, January, 7, “Memorial Tribute to the Late Samuel Bronfman” delivered circa 1972 by Menachim Goldmann during the Canadian Jewish Congress 16th Plenary Assembly which refers to the (June) 1940 meeting of the two men; and memoranda regarding Seagram acquisition of Wilson and Hunter (December)

Dates: 1940

Chronological File, 1941

 File — Box: 2
Accession: 2173Identifier: 2173-I.-A.-1.
Scope and Content:

clippings and correspondence, President's Report - National Executive Meeting of United Jewish Refugee & War Relief Agencies (January); remarks delivered at his 50th Birthday Dinner, March 8; Speech delivered at Montifiore Club, March 4 (includes with Hebrew translation); guest list, program and personal and professional salutations on Sam Bronfman's 50th Birthday. Also includes correspondence about beginning trade with Argentina (April); “The War's First Victims - The Refugees” report presented at the National Executive Meeting of the United Jewish Refugee & War Relief Agencies (September); Address delivered to the Inter- American Jewish Conference Baltimore, MD, November 23; and holdings of Bromount Investments, Ltd. (December)

Dates: 1941

Chronological File, 1942

 File — Box: 2
Accession: 2173Identifier: 2173-I.-A.-1.
Scope and Content:

clippings and correspondence; Address at Fifth Plenary Session of the Canadian Jewish Congress, January, 10-12; and material relating to visit of Eleanor Roosevelt (December)

Dates: 1942

Chronological File, 1930

 File — Box: 2
Accession: 2173Identifier: 2173-I.-A.-1.
Scope and Content:

clippings and correspondence relating to Harry Bronfman trial including acquittal (March) and from the Financial Post regarding publicly traded liquor companies; and personal correspondence from Saidye to Sam during his stay in Winnipeg (August-September)

Dates: 1930

Chronological File, 1931

 File — Box: 2
Accession: 2173Identifier: 2173-I.-A.-1.
Scope and Content:

clippings including those from the Financial Post; documents regarding exporting at St. Pierre and Miquelon; and Brintcan financial statement (April). Also contains minutes of meeting leading to the dissolution of Dominion Factors (August), a company established by Sam which combined five Canadian distillers in order to form a pool to regulate export prices; and Dominion Factors liquidation agreement (September)

Dates: 1931

Chronological File, 1932

 File — Box: 2
Accession: 2173Identifier: 2173-I.-A.-1.
Scope and Content:

clippings including those from the Financial Post; records relating to the disputed tax status of Atlas Shipping Company, Ltd. (February); correspondence with and about Harry Hatch and SDL Scotland and possible SDL deal with Samuel Bronfman (September-December)

Dates: 1932