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...There have been six Jewish U. S. Senators?Philip Judah Benjamin, Louisiana (1853-61); Simon Guggenheim, Colorado (1907-13); Benjamin Franklin Jonas, Louisiana (1879-85) ; Isidor Rayner, Maryland (1904-10) ; Joseph Simon, Oregon (1897-1903) ; David Levy Yulee,* Florida (1845-51 and 1855-61). There were ten Jewish Representatives, no Jewish Senators in the 69th Congress. A Jewish Cabinet officer was Oscar Straus who was Secretary of Commerce & Labor in Roosevelt's Cabinet (1906-09). Probably the highest public office held by a U. S. Jew today is the seat on the U. S. Supreme Court bench occupied by Louis...
...Manhattan, Isidor Garfunkel cut off his daughter Sophie from his $10,000 estate with $50, because, his will stated, she had once refused to close a window for him; had once refused to make coffee...
...Jesse Isidor and Herbert Straus, potent brothers, part owners of R.H. Macy & Co. (Manhattan department store): "Last week we went back to the old homestead in Talbotton, Ga., where Grandfather Lazarus Straus, fresh from Bavaria, began to be a U.S. merchant in 1848. His shack is still standing, but the original store had burned down. In the public square, the citizens spread for us a barbecue. As we were munching sandwiches, a withered man came up, shook our hands, said: 'Isidor Straus [our father, one the three sons of Lazarus] was the best Latin student I ever...
Died. Lee Kohns, 62, wealthy importer of china and glass, one-time president of the New York Board of Trade, nephew of Isidor and Nathan Straus; in Manhattan. The chair of American History, Civilization and Letters, at the Sorbonne, Paris, which was to be inaugurated last week, was Mr. Kohns' gift in memory of his grandfather Lazarus Straus, who although born in France, was made a German citizen after the formation of the Rhenish Palatinate...
...Yard. Like Widener Library, the latest, and what is likely to prove the last dormitory built in the Yard, is given in memory of victims of the sinking of the Titanic, now more than 10 years ago. The building if the gift of three sons, Jesse Isidor Straus, Harvard '93; Percy S. Straus, Harvard '97, and Herbert N. Straus, Harvard '03, and is in memory of their parents Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus...