Word: isidore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mister Percy-Only one of Lazarus Straus's three sons stayed with Macy's- Isidor. Nathan branched out for himself. Oscar was thrice Minister to Turkey and Theodore Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce & Labor-first Jew to sit in the Cabinet. It was Isidor's three sons who pushed Macy's sales to nearly $100,000,000 in 1929 and held them to $80,000,000 last year. The eldest grandson, Jesse Isidor, who insists on having his middle name spelled out and who contributed heavily to the Democratic campaign, resigned as president to serve...
...other U. S. Ambassadors: Argentina-Alexander Wilbourne Weddell Belgium-Dave Hennen Morris Brazil-Hugh Simons Gibson Cuba-Sumner Welles France-Jesse Isidor Straus Germany-William Edward Dodd Great Britain-Robert Worth Bingham Italy-Breckinridge Long Japan-Joseph Clark Grew Mexico-Josephus Daniels Peru-Fred Morris Dearing Poland-John Clarence Cudahy Spain-Claude Gernade Bowers Turkey-Robert Peet Skinner...
Married. Ralph Isidor Straus, eldest son of President Percy Selden Straus of R. H. Macy & Co. (Manhattan department store), nephew of U. S. Ambassador to France Jesse Isidor Straus; and Matilda Bradford Day, Manhattan socialite; in Kidders-on-Cayuga Lake...
...deep friendship toward France on our part," read Jesse Isidor Straus, "calls for deep understanding from France. We are ready to cooperate with France . . . with the expectation that you will work with us. In that spirit I present my credentials...
University of Missouri Robert Woods Bliss of St. Louis, retiring Ambassador to Argentina ... LL.D. Dr. Albert Ross Hill, Missouri's one-time (1908-22) president LL.D. Dr. Isidor Loeb, Missouri's acting president in 1923 .... LL.D...