Word: strause
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Howard Elliott, President of the Harvard Board of Overseers and President of the Board of the Northern Pacific Railroad; T. W. Lamont '92 of J. P. Morgan and Company; J. P. Morgan '89 of J. P. Morgan and Company; James Simpson, President of Marshall Field and Company; H. N. Straus '03 of the firm of R. H. Macy and Company; and Gerard Swope, President of the General Electric Company...
Jesse Isidor and Herbert Straus, potent brothers, part owners of R.H. Macy & Co. (Manhattan department store): "Last week we went back to the old homestead in Talbotton, Ga., where Grandfather Lazarus Straus, fresh from Bavaria, began to be a U.S. merchant in 1848. His shack is still standing, but the original store had burned down. In the public square, the citizens spread for us a barbecue. As we were munching sandwiches, a withered man came up, shook our hands, said: 'Isidor Straus [our father, one the three sons of Lazarus] was the best Latin student I ever...
...Harvard delegation to Poland Spring this year will be led by C.O. Simpson '27. Anyone desiring to represent Harvard, should see Simpson in 30 Straus Hall today between 9 and 11 o'clock, or tomorrow between 9 and 12 o'clock...
...Whedon '27 and E.F. Clark '28 collaborated in writing the book, while Joseph Alger '22, J.F. Bradlee '27, E.F. Craig '25, W.C. Harris '28, C.E. Henderson '28 and R.M. Whittemore '29 composed the music. The lyrics are the combined work of Joseph Alger '22, E.F. Craig '25, R.K. Straus '27 and J.O. Whedon...
...buildings and high-grade apartment construction was overdone. These types are overbuilt and we will not finance any more buildings of this character. However, we are lending money for small apartments or flat houses and one and two-family houses." When he had first said this, President Simon William Straus of S. W. Straus & Co. had not agreed with him entirely. Mr. Straus' house, beyond cavil, underwrites more mortgage bonds than any other concern in the country. His estimate of the nation's building situation is considered, by most men, to be authoritative, and, last week he stated...