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Bernard Gerald Cantor (December 17, 1916 – July 3, 1996) [1] was the founder and chairman of securities firm Cantor Fitzgerald. Career.
Bernard Cantor (March 30, 1892 – July 5, 1920) was an American-born, Reform rabbi with experience in social work who volunteered to work as an emissary for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (also known as the Joint or the JDC) in Poland and Ukraine (then Galicia) following World War I and the Russian Revolution, providing relief to Jewish communities there, until he was ...
BGC Partners was formed in 2004 when Cantor Fitzgerald spun out its voice brokerage business. The initials BGC stand for that company's founder, Bernard Gerald Cantor. In April 2005, BGC Partners LP merged with Maxcor Financial Group Inc. to form BGC Partners.
Iris Cantor (née Bazel, born February 14, 1931) is an American philanthropist based in New York City and Los Angeles, with a primary interest in medicine and the arts.. Cited as among the 50 top contributors in the United States, [1] as head of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, [2] her foundation has donated several hundred million dollars to museums, universities and hospitals since
During its early years, the synagogue was served by three rabbis for relatively short periods of time. They included Rabbi Bernard Cantor, who left on a mission for the Joint Distribution Committee to help oppressed Jews in Eastern Europe. While doing his humanitarian work, Cantor was murdered by bandits in southern Russia.
Fenton's pictures during the Crimean War were one of the first cases of war photography, with Valley of the Shadow of Death considered "the most eloquent metaphor of warfare" by The Oxford Companion to the Photograph. [13] [14] [s 3] Sergeant Dawson and his Daughter: 1855 Unknown; attributed to John Jabez Edwin Mayall [15] Unknown [e]
Pretty Ladies is a 1925 American silent comedy drama film starring ZaSu Pitts and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.The film is a fictional recreation of the famed Ziegfeld Follies.
Examples include parade of showgirls ("Beautiful Girls"); a torch song ("Losing My Mind"); a baggy pants comic song ("The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues"); and a novelty song ("Rain on the Roof"). [ citation needed ] In The Drowsy Chaperone , the character Victor Feldzieg is the producer of Feldzieg's Follies , a parody of Ziegfeld Follies .