Word: isidore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rushed Ambassador Jesse Isidor Straus at rumors that 85 patients, most of them U. S. citizens, languished unattended because the French hospital staff had caught the contagion of their country's "folded arms strikes" (TIME, June 8 et seq.). When Mr. Straus arrived he found all the French nurses and all the French cooks at their posts, but 60 scrubwomen, laundry workers and basement engineers, including one naturalized U. S. citizen, had locked themselves "on strike" in the basement. As headlines screeched in the Paris Herald, to the rescue planned to go the local American Legion, the American Women...
Socialist though the new Cabinet is and complacent though Premier Blum has shown himself toward French strikers, who were down last week from 1,000,000 to 204,000, nevertheless for Jesse Isidor Straus the Cabinet soon did more than it was doing for Paris department-store owners whose premises were in the third week of a "stay-in-strike." Over to the American Hospital and down into its basement hurried Minister of Interior Roger Salen-gro to "personally intervene." By nightfall he had got the strikers to abandon their more fantastic demands, persuaded the American Hospital to accept...
Married. Douglas Fairbanks Sr. (ne Ullman), 52, cinemactor; and Lady Ashley (Sylvia Hawkes), 52, onetime musicomedienne; after a round-the-world romance; in Paris. U. S. Ambassador Jesse Isidor Straus was a witness. In 1934 Lord Ashley divorced his wife on charges of misconduct with Fairbanks; month later Mary Pickford divorced Fairbanks for mental cruelty...
From the track meet at the Colombes Stadium and the steeplechase at Auteuil, to the other extreme of the marvelous Italian Art exhibit, every moment was well planned. American Ambassador Jesse Isidor Straus showed great interest in the experiment and also inquired about Harvard, his alma mater, being particularly concerned with the fate of the Latin requirement which was being very much discussed at the time...
FROM THE KINGDOM OF NECESSITY- Isidor Schneider-Putnam ($2.50). Autobiographical novel of Jewish life on New York's East Side, packed with warm characterizations and bland anecdotes, by a well-known U. S. poet...