Authors: Ted Gup
A Secret Gift (45 page)
letters of request for
newspaper ad
spiritual aspect of
as
tzedakah
tzedakah
Gipe, Lawrence
Gissiner, Betty
Gissiner, Evelyn
Gissiner, Jeffrey
Gissiner, John S.
Gissiner, Karl
Gompers, Samuel
Gray, Bill
business, “Gray the Painter,”
care of family and neighbors
family
letter of request
retirement and death
Gray, Gloria (later Hawkins)
Gray, Marjorie (later Markey)
Great Depression
bank failures
barter system
callousness toward suffering
charity and government aid, aversion to
Civil Works Administration
community, sense of
cost of goods
credit purchases
crime
evictions
family, appreciation of
hardships prior to
hoboes
homelessness
hunger
individualism and individual responsibility
New Deal
nomadic existence
pride and self-esteem
shame of poverty
small kindnesses
unemployment
vulnerability of wealthy
Works Progress Administration
Greatest Generation
Great Recession (twenty-first century)
assistance to needy
auto industry bankruptcies
in Canton
versus Great Depression
self-restraint and discipline
Troubled Assets Recovery Program
Grekin, Jacob
Griffin, Dennis
groceries
cost of
purchase on credit
Groves, James E. and Mary
Gup, Ted
discovery of appeal letters
New York Times
story on letters
story on letters
recollection of grandfather
research into grandfather’s history
search for descendants of gift recipients
study of history
Gup, Virginia (formerly Stone; later Sharpe)
Haas, Jeffrey Earl
Haas, Tom
Hammerstein, Oscar
Haren, Bernard
Haren, Elizabeth Bunt
Haren, James
Haren, William
Harter Bank
Hawkins, Gloria (formerly Gray)
Hay, John
Hensel, George
Hercules Motor Corporation
Hillman, Geraldine Laura (later Fry)
Hillman, Olive
Hillman, Paul
Hillman, Paul, Jr.
hoboes
homelessness
Hoover, J. Edgar
Hoover Company
Hopkins, Harry
“How Did You Die?” (Cooke)
Humphrey, Roger
hunger
hunger marches
immigrants to United States
Alien Registration Act (Smith Act)
in Canton
in Pittsburgh
quotas
from Romania
suspicion and deportation of
Jacob, John Raymond
Jewish Criterion
(Pittsburgh)
(Pittsburgh)
Jews
biblical commandments
burial customs
in Canton
fear of deportation
housing restrictions on
Nazism
in Pittsburgh
Romanian, American prejudice toward
Romanian persecution and exile of
Jordan, Dan
Jordan, Sandra (formerly Winters)
Joseph Dick Manufacturing Company (later Blizzard)
Joseph W. Farwick & Sons
Jury, Charles
Jury, Charles, Jr.
Jury, Donald and Myrna
Jury, Elizabeth
Kelly, Dr.
Kendzora, Paul
Kimelman, Reuven
King, Bessie
Knight, Brigham “Brig,”
Lanese, Herbert J. and Martha
Lazarus, Emma
Lazorshak, Steven
Lean, Delbert G.
Liermann, August
Lindsay, James and Frances
Long, David and Nellie
Long, Jason
Long, Melvin
Lowell, James Russell
Mansfield Reformatory
Margo, Ann
Margo, Frank Nicholas and Louise
Margo, Mary
Markey, Jennie
Markey, Marjorie (formerly Gray)
Markey, William
Marsh, William
Martin, Rachelle
“Maud Muller” (Whittier)
Maxwell, Guy B.
May, Felice
May, James and Edith
McCort, Alwyn C.
McCoy, Mrs. J. D.
McLain, Lloyd B. and Florence
merchant credit
Meyers Lake Amusement Park
Miami Herald
Miller, Catherine
Minor, Charles and Mary
Moidell, Arnold “AJ,”
Moidell, Joseph
Moidell, Tina “Esther” (formerly Finkelstein; Stone)
Monnot, Alice
Monnot, Barbara
Monnot, George E.
Monnot, George W.
acquaintance of Stone
business
death
letter of request
portrait of
Monnot, Richard J.
Monnot & Sacher Ford dealership
Naef, Robert
National Emergency Council
Neiss, Ervin
“New Colossus, The” (Lazarus)
New Deal
New York Times
on Canton’s immigrant population
on Canton’s underworld
on Hay’s appeal on behalf of Romanian Jews
on letters of request for gift distribution
on Nazism
Nickles, John
nomadic existence
Ohio State Reformatory
orphans and foster children
Palace Theater
Palm, Helen
Palmer, A. Mitchell
Pittsburgh
cigar factories
Finkelstein family immigration to
Romanian Jewish settlement in
Plover, George
poverty, embarrassment over
prices of everyday goods
pride and self-esteem
Pryor, Georgianna
recession of twenty-first century.
See
Great Recession
See
Great Recession
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Republic Steel
Rhoads, Kathleen
Rhoads, Roy
Richards, Beverly
Richards, Donald Dale
Richards, Erma June
Richards, Joseph, Jr.
Richards, Joseph “Joe” and Mattie
Richards, Kenneth
Richardson, Nettie
Richman, Ernest W.
Rogers, Joe
Rogers, Joseph P.
Romanian Jews
American prejudice toward
immigration quota on
persecution and exile from Romania
settlement in Pittsburgh
Romesberg, Clyde
Romesberg, Nora
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Civil Works Administration
National Emergency Council
New Deal
on stoicism
Works Progress Administration
Saal, George and Fern
Sabelli, Antonio
Sabelli, Susie
Sandusky, Hannah
Saunders, Edith Marie
education and career
hardships and loss of business
letter of request
wealth and status through marriage
Saunders, Minna
Saxton, W. G.
Schaub, Edna
shame
of poverty
of public assistance or charity
Shapiro, Hana Sure “Sarah” (formerly Finkelstein, Stone, Berman)
Shapiro, Hyman
Sharpe, Donald
Sharpe, Virginia (formerly Stone, Gup)
Sheffler, Samuel
Shingle, Dorothy, Bobby, and Martha
Sinclair, George
Smith Act (Alien Registration Act)
Soehnlen, Dan
Soehnlen, Joseph
Sommers, Howard E.
Stanley, Harry
Stewart, Charles
Stewart, Ruth (later Brown)
Stone, David (formerly Finkelstein)
Stone, Don
Stone, Dorothy
Stone, Edna
Stone, Eleanor
Stone, Ferne
Stone, Gusta “Gussie” (formerly Finkelstein)
Stone, Hana Sure “Sarah” (formerly Finkelstein; later Berman, Shapiro)
Stone, Hinde “Hilda” (formerly Finkelstein)
Stone, Isadore “Al” (formerly Finkelstein)
Stone, Jack
Stone, Minna Cecilia (formerly Adolph)
administration of gift distribution
British wartime relief
children
collection of letters
complicity in Stone’s deception
courtship and marriage
death
education
family background
feminism and social conscience
financial support of parents
grudge against brother-in-law
as Jew
social status
Stone, Moses “Mack” (formerly Finkelstein)
Stone, Sam
alien status in America
alien status in homeland
anonymity as benefactor
bankruptcy
British wartime relief
Canton, arrival in
children
cigar-rolling work
clothing business
compassion
control of others through money
courtship and marriage
death
education, lack of
as employer
father’s emotional coldness
fear of persecution and deportation
fictitious past
hardships
immigration to America
as Jew
as jokester
as judge of character
life timeline
military service
name change
passport documentation
personal qualities
in Pittsburgh
retirement years
Romania, visits to
Romanian childhood
sculpture,
The Jumper
The Jumper
search for home
on second chances
secrecy concerning past
siblings, alienation of
Smith Act, failure to register under
social status with marriage
unlawfulness
wealth
wealth, insecurity concerning
women’s plight, sensitivity to
See also
gift distribution
gift distribution
Stone, Tina “Esther” (formerly Finkelstein; later Stone, Moidell)
Stone, Virginia (later Gup, Sharpe)
Stone Brothers clothing store
Stone’s Clothes
Stover, Lloyd
Strasser, Charles
Superior Dairy
Talbott, Lheeta Carlin
Taylor, Betty
Teis, Roy and family
Timken Roller Bearing Company
Truman, Harry S
Uebing, Mary
Underwood, John H.
unemployment
Civil Works Administration
desire for work
disdain for unemployed
during Great Recession
hiring of neediest applicants
labor strikes
lack of opportunity for work
New Deal
rate of
among women
vegetable gardening
Vignos, James
Virdot, B.
bank account
offer of financial assistance
origin of alias
speculation on identity of
See also
gift distribution; Stone, Sam
gift distribution; Stone, Sam
“Vision of Sir Launfal, The” (Lowell)
Wagner Provision
Waidman, Albert and Stella
Walker, Frank
Walters, Nola
Watters, Joseph P.
Werley, Lloyd H.
White, J. L.
Whittier, John Greenleaf
Williams, Carol
Winters, Arthur
Winters, Carol
Winters, Charles
Winters, Charles, Jr.
Winters, Florence (formerly Bair)
Winters, Sandra (later Jordan)
women
economic inequities
support of family
unemployment
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Wright, Miriam
Wright, Noble and Alverna
Young, Arnold
Young, Charles
Young, Chester A. and Nancy Ellen
Young, Donald
Young, Margaret
Young, Orville
Youngen, John
Zerby, George and Catherine
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