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...Jesse Isidor Straus, Manhattan department store tycoon (R. H. Macy & Co.), sailed for his post as Ambassador to France. Current among his friends at home became this cracker...
Died. Herbert Nathan Straus, 51, vice president of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. and president of Newark's L. Bamberger & Co. (department stores), ardent Republican, brother of Ambassador to France Jesse Isidor Straus; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
...Ralph Isidor Straus, 29, assistant general manager of R. H. Macy, became secretary; his cousin Jack Isidor Straus, 33. secretary of R. H. Macy, became vice president; Ralph's father and Jack's uncle, Percy Selden Straus, vice president of R. H. Macy, became president; Ralph's uncle. Jack's father and Percy's brother, Jesse Isidor Straus, resigned as president to become U. S. Ambassador to France. Last week Percy's and Jesse's brother, Herbert Nathan Straus, 51, died of heart trouble (see p. 36) two days after resigning as treasurer...
...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...
...fact that Jesse Isidor Straus speaks French fluently undoubtedly weighed in favor of his being sent to France instead of staying home as Secretary of Commerce. Aged 60, he takes his job of a Harvard Overseer seriously. Even more seriously does he take the job of being patriarch to his clan of children and grandchildren, whom he keeps together in a Park Avenue apartment building which he built for the purpose. He is also patriarchal toward his 8,000 employes at Macy's, who call him "Mr. Jesse." Last week Mr. Jesse summoned them, asked them to write letters...