Word: isidore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jesse Isidor Straus, ardent Brown Derby supporter in 1928 and president of R. H. Macy & Co. (Manhattan department store) asked the 2,000-odd delegates and alternates to the Democratic National Convention at Houston whom they would prefer for the presidency next year. He received 844 definite replies. Last week he made public the results. The first five of 20 candidates...
Three weeks before her death Mrs. Bischoff had written Counsel Isidor Jacob Kresel-who was relieved as prosecutor for the Seabury investigation when indicted in the Bank of U. S. failure proceedings (TIME, Feb. 2)-that she had "some information in connection with a 'frameup' by a police .officer and others which . . . will be of great aid to your committee." Five days before her demise she communicated the nature of her information to Irving Ben Cooper, Inquisitor Kresel's successor. She told him that she was a painter. Police investigation later revealed that her comfortable income came...
Professor Isidor Isaac Rabi, physicist of Columbia University: "As to blowing up the world by releasing a tremendous quantity of atomic energy-that's most improbable. The worst that could happen is that the scientists might be burned...
...Isidor Jacob Kresel is a diminutive man and an able lawyer. Austrian by birth. American by 40 years of residence, his record in the Bar includes investigation of the famous insurance scandals of a quarter of a century ago. He was a prosecuting attorney in the impeachment of Governor William Sulzer of New York. For the U. S. Government he investigated the meat packers in Chicago and was just delving into the building trades when Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty discharged him from the Government employ. Three years ago he unearthed a series of "ambulance chasing" scandals in Manhattan. Recently...
Giuseppe de Lellis will give a piano recital in the Dunster House common room at 7.15 o'clock this evening. Mr. de Lellis, now resident in Cambridge, has studied at the Paris Conservatory with Isidor Philipp and in London with Tobins Matthay. The program...