[T1S1] birth and early life in Odessa, Russia; father's grocery business; number of siblings; early education at the gymnasium; religious instruction at home; immigration to United States in 1921 with sister and her husband; execution of family members during Nazi era; immigration of other family members and their history; his stay in Romania during immigration; discussion of life under the Bolsheviks; receives financial aid from brother in America, travels to Philadelphia; various jobs held in Philadelphia; learning English; education, Northeast High School, Wharton School and Temple University on scholarship from Wharton; employment teaching a political science course at Temple; employment with the Delaware County Chamber of Commerce; joins the Pennsylvania Economic League in Philadelphia (PEL) in 1933; discussion of the PEL and its function; becomes the director of Research of PEL in Pittsburgh in 1936; moves to Pittsburgh in 1938.
