Word: strause
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the soothing explanations were heard, however, Rabbi Wise felt obliged to hand in his resignation as Chairman of the $5,000,000 United Palestine Fund. Promptly famed Manhattan Jewish merchant Nathan Straus ("best loved U. S. Jew") made a further contribution of $150,000 to the fund, and flayed anyone and everyone who aspersed his friend Rabbi Wise. Later Mr. Straus predicted that the Rabbi's resignation would not be accepted...
...statement by Edward C. Blum, genial president of Abraham & Straus ("the Perfect Store") summed the matter up: "Brooklyn with its more than 2,000,000 population can support an institution of collegiate degree very easily. The institutions of that character in Brooklyn now, although they art private, are crowded to capacity and there are many waiting to enter or go elsewhere for their studies...
Harvard Hall basement: 9--10, R. K. Straus, J. F. Barnes; 10--11, P. M. Herzog, Russell T. Smith; 11--12, A. C. Coolidge, J. F. W. Whitbeck; 12--1, H. W. Foote; 1--2, R. S. Coolidge, F. J. Otis; 2--3, Kendall Foss, J. E. Johnson: 3--4, C. G. Thompson; 4--5, J. C. Furnas, Edward Baur...
Sever Hall: 9--10, R. W. Ladd, E. W. Mudge; 10--11, H. B. Jackson, Robert Soutter, Jr.; 11--12, Lloyd VanderHorst, Richard Rush; 12--1, R. A. Pinkerton, S. H. Sturgis; 1--2, G. P. Sturgis, J. L. Prescott; 2--3, R. K. Straus; 3--4, J. D. Hitch; 4--5, B. C. Boeckler...
Died. Horace Andrew Saks, 43, co-founder and Vice President of the famed department store, Saks & Co.; at Mt. Sinai Hospital, Manhattan, of septic poisoning. In leading Manhattan dailies he was publicly mourned in paid advertisements by rival merchants- Abraham & Straus, Stern Bros., Lord & Taylor, James McCreery & Co., Franklin Simon & Co., Gim- bel Bros., Oppenheim-Collins...