Joseph Seligman
de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception
On
June 13, 1877, Joseph Seligman, one of America’s prominent
bankers, was denied entrance to a hotel because he was Jewish. He
did not let the anti-Semitic insult go and instead turned it into a major
public debate. http://htz.li/12pFUm
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