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Governor Al Smith, Maurice Wertheim and Theresa Helburn at the laying of the cornerstone of the Guild Theatre in New York City, 1924.
Maurice Wertheim and daughters Barbara & Josephine
Chess Via Radio 02 Sep 1945, Sun The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) Newspapers.com
CHESS VIA RADIO—Mayor LaGuardia, opening the match between America and Russia, makes the first move. With 10 men on each team in the first international chess event since 1939, the match is being played in Manhattan and Moscow over the Labor Day weekend. Watching the Mayor are American champion Arnold Denker, left, and Maurice Wertheim, president, Manhattan Chess Club.
Maurice and Cecilia Berlage Wertheim
Original Caption: Maurice Wertheim, New York banker was elected President of the American Jewish committee November 18, 1941. The Committee was established in 1906 to protect the civil and religious rights of Jews throughout the world. Wertheim is the committee's fifth president. He succeeds the late Sol M. Stroock who died on September 11, 1941. Source: Getty
Maurice Wertheim Is Re-Elected By Zionist Committee 30 Jan 1942, Fri The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) Newspapers.com
Wertheim Chess Club Head 08 Apr 1944, Sat The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) Newspapers.com
Wertheim Chess Club Head
Maurice Wertheim was re-elected president at the annual meeting of Mannattan Chess Club yesterday. Henry Chandler was named vice president, with Henry Atlas as treasurer and Mrs. Maude M. Stephens as secretary.
U.S. Team To Play Red Chess Stars 29 Aug 1945, Wed The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com
U. S. Team To Play Red Chess Stars
In the first international event of its kind since 1939, an American chess team will take on ten Russian chess champions via radio over Labor Day week-end, it was announced yesterday by Maurice Wertheim, chairman, and W. W. Lancaster, vice chairman, of the match committee.
Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, of New York, will make the opening move for the United States team, which will play in the Henry Hudson Hotel in New York before a large audience. Progress of the matches will be shown on gigantic illuminated chess boards at the hotel.
FUNDS TO AID WOUNDED
The affair is being held under the auspices of Russian Relief, the U. S. Chess Federation and the Chess Review. Proceeds will be used to provide therapeutic equipment for wounded American and Soviet service men.
Included in a list of distinguished sponsors of the matches are Mayor LaGuardia and Joseph E. Davies, former U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union and more recently a special Presidential envoy to Moscow and London.
MEMBERS OF TEAMS
The American team will be composed of Arnold Denker, Samuel Reshevsky, Reuben Fine, I. Horowitz, I. Kashdan, Herman Steiner, Albert Pinkus, Private First Class Herman Seidman, A. Kupchik and A. Santasiere.
Representing Russia will be M. Botvinnik, V. Smyslov, I. Boleslavsky, Salo Flohr, Alex Kotov, I. Bondarevsky, A. Lilienthal, V. Ragozin, V. Makogonov and V. Bronstein.
Soviet Union Invites Return Chess Match 17 Sep 1945, Mon Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York) Newspapers.com
Soviet Union Invites Return Chess Match
New York — (AP) — The Soviet Union has invited the American sponsors of the recent USA-USSR radio chess match, won by the Russians, to send the American team to Moscow in 1946 for a return match, Maurice Wertheim, match committee chairman, announced yesterday. Wertheim said the sponsors, the U. S. Chess Federation, the Chess Review and the American Society for Russian Relief Inc., would meet soon with the match committee to consider the invitation.
2 Hop for Chess Match With Russia 01 Sep 1946, Sun Daily News (New York, New York) Newspapers.com
2 Hop for Chess Match With Russia
Moscow-bound for a match with Russia, Maurice Wertheim, chairman of the U. S. Chess Committee, and Israel Horowitz, top-ranking player on the American team, flew from LaGuardia Field yesterday. The match, scheduled for Sept. 9. 10, 11 and 12, will be the first face-to-face international chess set-to since the war.
Chess Viewed As Aid To U.S.-Soviet Amity 28 Sep 1946, Sat The Morning News (Wilmington, Delaware) Newspapers.com
CHESS VIEWED AS AID TO U. S.-SOVIET AMITY
NEW YORK, Sept. 27 (AP)—The chess board will prove a strong bond in United States-Russian friendship, Maurice Wertheim, investment banker and non-playing captain of the U. S. chess team, said today.
Wertheim made his observation on arrival at La Guardia Field from London. He had accompanied the U. S. team to Moscow where it lost to Soviet chess players.
The Russian team, he said, had been asked to participate in a New York match next September.
Maurice Wertheim, 64, Broker, Sportsman and Philanthropist 29 May 1950, Mon The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) Newspapers.com
Maurice Wertheim, 64, Broker, Sportsman and Philanthropist
Funeral services for Maurice Wertheim, 64, investment broker, sportsman and philanthropist, who at one time was publisher of The Nation, liberal weekly, were to be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon at his city home, 43 E. 70th St, Manhattan. He died Saturday of a heart attack at his country home in Cos Cob, Conn.
Mr. Wertheim, a graduate of Harvard, was a founder of the Theater Guild and of the Palestine Economic Foundation. In 1946 he organized a ten-man chess team and went to Russia as a non-playing captain to compete with a crack Soviet team. The American team lost 12½ to 7½. Mr. Wertheim sought a return engagement in this country but was unsuccessful.
Donated Wild Life Refuge
Three years ago, Mr. Wertheim a trustee of the American Wildlife Foundation, donated to the government 1,800 acres bordering Carmans River and Great South Bay in Suffolks County as a wild life refuge. He was an honorary trustee of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York and was former president of the American Jewish Committee. Mr. Wertheim was founder and president of Wertheim & Co, investment bankers, 120 Broadway, Manhattan, and a director of several industrial firms. He was a native of this city and began his business career with the United Cigar Manufacturers Co., now the General Cigar Co. At one time he was a member of the New York State Industrial Board.
During World War II Mr. Wertheim served with the War Production Board.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Cecile Berlage Wertheim, and three daughters, Mrs. Josephine W. Pomerance, Mrs. Barbara V. Tuchman and Mrs. Anne W. Langman.
Maurice Wertheim, FWS
Maurice Wertheim Dies 04 Jun 1950, Sun The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com
MAURICE WERTHEIM DIES
We are very sorry to hear of the untimely and sudden death of Maurice Wertheim, vice-president of the U.S. Chess Federation and president of the Manhattan Chess Club of New York. Mr. Wertheim was responsible for the radio match between the United States and the U.S.S.R. in 1945. The following year he financed the U.S. chess team which played an over-the-board match in Moscow. Your editor knew Mr. Wertheim personally as a fine gentleman, player and generous contributor in time and money to all important chess events in the United States. American chess has indeed suffered a great loss in his passing. Our deepest sympathy to the bereaved family.
