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...curtail ordinary expenditure. In order to keep production up, each line of business must be sure other lines are running at full schedule. In this way did the conference give each leader assurance that he would be left holding no bag. Rumors of curtailment were denied. Merchant Jesse Isidor Straus of R. H. Macy & Co. said it was not true he had laid off 1,200 employes but that he had discharged 28, taken on 200. Other executives spoke along the same lines. Alexander Legge. Chairman of the Federal Farm Board, drawled, "It looks as if industry would have...
...first day. In 1928 Bloomingdale Bros. (Manhattan) reached the net sales total of $23,000,000. Last week it finally joined a long-planned department store merger which will consolidate it with Abraham & Straus (Brooklyn-Started in 1865 by Abraham Abraham, who was joined in 1893 by Isidor Straus, chinaware merchant), William Filene's Sons Co. (Boston-Headed by William E. Filene who unsuccessfully sought injunctions to prohibit large stockholders, including his brother, from voting for the merger), and F. & R. Lazarus & Co. (Columbus and Cincinnati-Founded in 1851). Combined annual sales will total...
...vicinity. . . . Time-honored though the custom be, this year, for the first time, Princeton public school children will get no holiday when it rains. . . . Among the Cyr.us Fogg Brackett lecturers this year at Princeton University will be Fred Wesley Sargent, president of Chicago & North Western Railway; Jesse Isidor Straus, president of R. H. Macy & Co. (Manhattan department store) ; Paul Shoup; president of Southern Pacific Rail way; Newcomb Carlton. president of Western Union Telegraph...
Present head of Macy's is Jesse Isidor Straus, who always wishes to have his middle name written in full out of respect to the memory of his father. Purchasing Bamberger's was a logical step because, situated on the west side of Manhattan, many a Macy customer is a New Jerseyite and the two great stores were competing ever more keenly. Friends of Mr. Straus twittingly asked whether he bought Bamberger's with the discount at which Macy's aims to sell all merchandise...
...Straus, in addition to managing Macy's, is also an Overseer of Harvard University, where he is particularly interested in the Graduate School of Business. At Harvard the memory of Isidor Straus is perpetuated in the Straus Dormitory...