After studying engineering at Case School of Applied Science and graduating from Yale University (class of 1903), he was a surveyor of an ill-fated Mexican railroad construction venture, attempted a mining career in Arizona, and rode a horse 275 miles from Goldfield, Nevada, to Chloride, Arizona, in search of a job.

This lone open-country ride, in which Indians ferried him across the Colorado River while the horse swam at the end of a rope, took two weeks.

[3][4] Midway through making Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Walt Disney, after spending $1.25 million, needed another $250,000 to complete the film.

[6] When the Disney animators' strike was finished in October 1941, Rosenberg issued an ultimatum in which he would permit an absolute loan limit of $3.5 million, and in return, he ordered the studio to restrict itself to producing animation shorts and to finish features already in production—Dumbo, Bambi, and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad—but no other feature film would begin work until they had been released and earned back their costs.

The government described the $100,000 as a "mystery" sum and indicated testimony could be offered to show that through a series of business deals Schenck came out $100,000 ahead and allegedly failed to declare the $100,000 in his income tax return.

He joined Lehman Brothers as a senior partner and opened their Los Angeles office a month after leaving Bank of America.

Dr. Nelson Glueck, college president, said that the Center was being named for its donor, who at 86 was still a general partner in the Los Angeles office of Lehman Brothers.

Dr. Glueck added that the Rosenberg Center would be the West Coast depository of copies of documents, numbering about three million pages, in the American Jewish Archives on the Cincinnati campus of the 93-year-old rabbinical seminary.