Word: strause
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first mortgage real estate bond business has been one of the, most important factors in the building of the United States, and we believe that this business is destined to play a still greater part in the future of the country."-Vice President Herbert S. Martin, S. W. Straus...
...Waltz Dream. Another German film of rare and easy excellence has been made from Oscar Straus' operetta. Simplicity and graceful common sense have replaced the million dollar dowdiness that would have suffused the film if made in almost any U. S. studio. The story is slight, telling of a frosty Princess and her not particularly interested Prince consort. The latter prefers a blonde from a beer garden. None of the actors are notable here. All of them in their strange Teutonic way are excellent...
Money came in fast. Felix Warburg gave $400,000, Herbert Lehman, Mrs. S. W. Straus, Mortimer Schiff gave $50,000 each; Louis Marshall, William Fox, Benjamin Winter made big contributions, and a disabled veteran sent $28 (government allowance for war wounds). Advertisers, art-goods makers, bag-makers, bankers, butter, egg, and dairy firms; chain stores, crockery companies, cloak and suit houses; the dental, the funeral, the grocery, the hosiery, the laundry, millinery, musical and neckwear trades; opticians, pawnbrokers, petticoat cutters, physicians, rubber-goods makers, rabbis, underwear and umbrella manufacturers - all were appraised for definite amounts, all came near to filling...
Died. Oscar Solomon Straus, 76, merchant, politician, diplomat, philanthropist; in Manhattan...
...buildings in the University will be open. Guides will be posted in the following, which are considered of especial interest to returning alumni: the new Senior Dormitories, Lehman Hall, the Freshman Dormitories, the new Business School Buildings, the new Fogg Art Museum, Straus Hall, and Massachusetts Hall. It is suggested that the Alumni visit the Business School in the afternoon, when they will be on the other side of the river for the game...