Word: isidore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...choosing an important appointee, a President must measure the candidate's loyalty against his capability. A man both loyal and capable was at hand for Ambassador to France. Jesse Isidor Straus began working for President Roosevelt two years ago when he reported that a canvass of 1928 Democratic convention delegates was favorable to the Roosevelt cause. As president of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. (cash dry goods), which he has headed since his father Isidor went down with the Titanic, he was one of the first businessmen to board the Roosevelt bandwagon...
...Jesse Isidor Straus, president of R. H. Macy & Co., Inc. (cash only), rushed home from the Inaugural, bought a page in New York newspapers to announce a "code." Excerpts...
...Undoubtedly we shall return to a greater prosperity than ever before. First we shall have 'inflation' and we shall find it good," said N. S. B. Gras, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. Gras declared that this prosperity when regained would be the first stage in a period of physical and mental advances which will lead to a higher level of civilization...
Last week the following was news: Kenneth Collins, smart young adman, resigned as publicity director of R. H. Macy & Co., Manhattan bargain department store, to form his own agency. Year ago he resigned but changed his mind after a long talk with shrewd, paternal President Jesse Isidor Straus. Kenneth Collins' friends say he wanted to be a millionaire by 1936, that Jesse Straus promised to make him one (in Macy stock) if only he would stay. To Macy's he would be worth it. Since he hit upon his vein of bright, saucy, it's-smart...
Last week 86 eminent persons including Edsel Ford, John Hays Hammond, William Green, Howard Earle Coffin, August Heckscher, Clark Howell, Henry Stevens, Edward F. Hutton, William Vincent Griffin, Jesse Isidor Straus and Elon Huntington Hooker petitioned President Hoover to revive the Council of National Defense. They argued that a dictatorship was the way out of Depression. President Hoover promptly rejected their request. He felt that the C. 0. N. D. was only an advisory war body and that the Cabinet, Federal Reserve Board, Farm Board and Reconstruction Finance Corp. were now "the most effective economic council that could be devised...