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...having his middle name spelled out and who contributed heavily to the Democratic campaign, resigned as president to serve another Roosevelt, as Ambassador to France. Herbert, who died last spring, was Macy's treasurer and president of Macy-owned L. Bamberger & Co. in Newark. The middle brother, Percy Selden. a precise, courteous, slightly nervous gentleman with thinning hair, is now in full command. Generally credited with being the brains of Macy's merchandising, he is always known to Macy's 8,000 employes as Mister Percy...
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...
Brown University (Providence, R. I.) U. S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Nathan Cardozo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. President Franklin Winslow Johnson of Colby College (Waterville, Me.). . . LL.D. Harold Higgins Swift, Chicago packer. LL.D. Astronomer Harlow Shapley . . . . . . . . . . . Sc.D. Actress Eva Le Gallienne . . . . . . . . . . . . .Litt.D. Charles Albert Selden, London correspondent of the New York Times . . . . . M.A. Colby College (Waterville, Me.) Bainbridge Colby. Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D...
...rather naive and unconvincing fashion, and his statistical vagaries have been carefully corrected by the editors of the Harkness Hoot, all of which indicates that the Hoot has once more been mumbo-jumboed by the roll of a mighty name. The symposium emits from three graduate editors, Selden Rodman and William Harlan Hale of "Common Sense," and Richard S. Childs, who is, we are informed, in Washington because he is very fond of zoos. Their product will be familiar to anyone who has heard the Nation speak out loud and bold, for it makes us once more privy...
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...