Chapter Seventeen

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Retrenching and Reshaping

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ON OCTOBER 12, 1927, Lasker’s eldest child, Mary, married Gerhard Foreman, the son of Oscar G. Foreman, a director of Chicago’s Foreman National Bank. It seemed an eminently suitable match: Mary and Gerhard were in love, and two powerful Chicago Jewish families found themselves united.

The couple was married at the Laskers’ Glencoe home, with only members of the two families present.1 The mansion was lavishly decorated for the occasion, and the young couple was thrilled to learn that it was to be their ...

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