Word: straus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris, Vienna-born Composer Oscar Straus, 69 (The Chocolate Soldier), was granted final French citizenship. In London, Rogers S. Lament, Manhattan lawyer, distant relative of Banker Thomas William Lament, took the oath of allegiance to King George VI, began training as an artillery cadet. In a Ukrainian city, Ruth Marie Rubens, 31, Philadelphia woman who went to Russia in 1937 on a forged passport, became U.S.S.R. Citizeness Ruth Friederichnova Boerger. In Manhattan, Elisabeth Rethberg, Metropolitan Opera soprano, received her final papers for U. S. citizenship...
Frederick B. Harvey, Jr. of Baltimore and the Hill School; Straus Hall...
Comstock's boat: Reece, Richards, Pirnie, Walkley, Emmet, Erskine, Brown, Straus, and Wigglesworth...
...league includes eight teams, some of the Freshman Houses joining with others to make up their squads. The teams are made up as follows: Weld, Matthews, Wigglesworth, Thayer, Grays, Holworthy - Hollis - Stoughton, Straus-Massachusetts, Lionel-Apley-Mower. Each team will play seven games, with the schedule including two games per week during the ensuing season...
...Nathan Straus's job is sociological. Franklin Roosevelt's immediate reason for expanding it is economic. Giving USHA another $800,000,000 is a big feature of the Great White Rabbit of 1939 whereby business recovery is to be accelerated in time for the 1940 election. In his speech, Mr. Straus stressed that all USHA work goes to private contractors. It is thus at the mercy of whatever restrictive influences may be exerted on Housing by makers and distributors of materials, by building contractors, by building trades unions. It was to clear the road for a big industrial...