Word: strause
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Lee Kohns, 62, wealthy importer of china and glass, one-time president of the New York Board of Trade, nephew of Isidor and Nathan Straus; in Manhattan. The chair of American History, Civilization and Letters, at the Sorbonne, Paris, which was to be inaugurated last week, was Mr. Kohns' gift in memory of his grandfather Lazarus Straus, who although born in France, was made a German citizen after the formation of the Rhenish Palatinate...
...clock this afternoon the Executive Board of the Class of 1929 will meet in Straus 27 to complete the final arrangements for the election. This Board consists of A. E. French Jr., K. D. Robinson, H. S. Crosby, A. S. Churchill, R. A. Stout, W. S. Youngman, John de Laittre, G. P. Davis, John Tudor, E. W. Sexton, C. McK. Norton, and Winslow Carlton...
...list of the largest buildings in the United States. I would like to say that here, right here in Cincinnati, is a building, namely the Union Central Life Insurance Building, which is 34 stories and 495 feet above street level. It belongs in the list more than the Straus, Tribune or Wrigley Buildings as it tops the tallest by at least 20 feet. Please apologize for this omission. You know how one roots for his home town...
Henry Ford: "In reply to Merchant Nathan Straus's charges that I have traduced the Jews (TIME, Dec. 6), the Dec. 25 issue of my Dearborn Independent will repeat accusations against the 'International Jew.' This is no particular Jew at whom I point. 'The International Jew,' I say, 'is the most closely organzied racial entity in the world, with an espionage system that covers every village and every larger centre in the country, in direct control of all financial centres of government, including the U. S. Federal Reserve System. . . . He controls the revolutionary elements of the world, on one hand...
...plans for alloting rooms to next year's Seniors announced last night by W. G. Saltonstall '28, Chairman of the Senior Dormitory Committee, attention is called to the fact that the new Straus Hall in the Yard which is in its initial year of service and is now housing a majority of Sophomores is to be converted into a Senior Dormitory. Mr. Straus, the donor, originally intended it for a Sophomore Dormitory and it was accordingly opened to the applications of the Class of 1929 last spring. Now however, Mr. Straus prefers to have it occupied by Seniors only...