Notes:
A generous person known to assist relatives financially when they
started a new business. He helped Ben Herman in the depression (1939
or 40) with $3000 to purchase a candy store in the Harlem River
Housing Project; Harry Melnick to set up a family run Dept. Store in
Staten Island; and Sol Cooper (a nephew) to set up a children's wear
shop in Encino CA. Leslie Weston (son-in-law): "Joe Charles was
known, somewhat affectionately,