Word: isidore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provisions against "loss-leaders" and unfair advertising of consistently lowered prices, the code was "stealthily" emasculated, said the Darrow Board, between its adoption and final promulgation. Responsible, hinted the report, was the influence of one potent "socially and politically" figure in the industry (i. e. Ambassador to France Jesse Isidor Straus of R. H. Macy & Co.). That General Johnson had openly admitted making a change was taken by the report to be the last straw. "In our judgment," the retail trade report concluded, "the rule of the military commander is totally unsuited to the genius, habits, traditions or psychology...
Before they could reach that conclusion even with the powerful wave mathematics developed by Germany's Erwin Schrodinger, Drs. George Braxton Pegram, John R. Dunning and Isidor Isaac Rabi had to lead their particles like circus animals through a complex series of hoops & hurdles. Beryllium powder was placed in a glass tube containing the radioactive gas radon. Alpha particles from the radon knocked neutrons out of the beryllium. First hurdle was a metal ring which deflected part of the neutron beam toward a cylindrical detection chamber less than an inch across, a half-inch deep. The chamber...
...down African mammals, collect rare birds to equip a new hall in the Museum. At Dakar in Senegal they will be joined by the expedition's sponsor, white-haired Sarah Lavanburg Straus, 74, widow of Oscar Solomon Straus, onetime Minister to Turkey, aunt of Ambassador to France Jesse Isidor Straus. No tyro at roughing it, robust Mrs. Straus equipped and led an expedition to Nyasaland and British East Africa in 1929, spent last winter poking about Mayan ruins in Yucatan. With the Field Museum's experts she will trek to Timbuktu and Lake Chad, return...
...five members whose six-year terms normally expire in June 1934 are; Homer Gage '82, of Worcester, Joseph Lee '83, of Boston, Jesse Isidor Straus '93, of New York City, Mark Sullivan '00, of Washington, and Leverett Saltonstall '14 of Boston
Back in 1930, four men contributed $10,000 apiece to Franklin Roosevelt's campaign fund. They were Jesse Isidor Straus, William Woodin, Col. Edward Mandell House and Frank Comerford Walker. Mr. Straus has been made Ambassador to France. Mr. Woodin was appointed Secretary of the Treasury. Col. House, who could not stand Washington's summer heat even when Woodrow Wilson was in the White House, wanted no job for his contribution to the Roosevelt war chest. Neither, according to report, did rich, affable, unassuming Manhattan Lawyer Frank Walker, Anaconda Copper's lawyer. But because Mr. Walker...