Mr. Speaker. the untimely death of Yonkers Raceway president. Martin Tananbaum on March 24. at age 54. left the memory of one of the most progressive and communityminded executives in the country. Born January 8. 1916. Mr. Tananbaum was one of nine children of Harry and Minnie Tananbaum. immigrants from Poland. His father built a small textile business and raised his family in the Bronx. Martin graduated from DeWitt Clinton High in the Bronx at 16. and later attended Fordham University night school for 2 years and Brooklyn Law School for 1 year in the evenings. He left school after his father died in 1934 and worked in his fathers business with his brothers until 1944 when he enlisted in the Air Corps as a cadet.
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