Word: isidore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife of the new U. S. Ambassador to France was escorted into the courtyard of the Elysée, permitted to loiter there. Up whirled a motorcade of twinkling French Government cars, disgorged the U. S. Embassy's entire corps of secretaries escorting impeccably turned-out Jesse Isidor Straus...
...Jesse Isidor Straus, Manhattan department store tycoon (R. H. Macy & Co.), sailed for his post as Ambassador to France. Current among his friends at home became this cracker...
Died. Herbert Nathan Straus, 51, vice president of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. and president of Newark's L. Bamberger & Co. (department stores), ardent Republican, brother of Ambassador to France Jesse Isidor Straus; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
...Ralph Isidor Straus, 29, assistant general manager of R. H. Macy, became secretary; his cousin Jack Isidor Straus, 33. secretary of R. H. Macy, became vice president; Ralph's father and Jack's uncle, Percy Selden Straus, vice president of R. H. Macy, became president; Ralph's uncle. Jack's father and Percy's brother, Jesse Isidor Straus, resigned as president to become U. S. Ambassador to France. Last week Percy's and Jesse's brother, Herbert Nathan Straus, 51, died of heart trouble (see p. 36) two days after resigning as treasurer...
...fact that Jesse Isidor Straus speaks French fluently undoubtedly weighed in favor of his being sent to France instead of staying home as Secretary of Commerce. Aged 60, he takes his job of a Harvard Overseer seriously. Even more seriously does he take the job of being patriarch to his clan of children and grandchildren, whom he keeps together in a Park Avenue apartment building which he built for the purpose. He is also patriarchal toward his 8,000 employes at Macy's, who call him "Mr. Jesse." Last week Mr. Jesse summoned them, asked them to write letters...