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Jews. Almost as a retort to recent racial increments of the Smith following (see p. 8), announcement was made last week that Herbert N. Straus, secretary & treasurer of R. H. Macy & Co. (Manhattan department store), would be Republican treasurer for New York State. At the Kansas City convention, Mr. Straus offered to bet large sums at 2 to i that Hoover would carry, not merely New York State, but New York City itself against Smith. His first public stroke in his new office was to write letters to 3,600 golf clubs and ask them to close...
...Nominee Smith. This appointment was an outcropping' of one of the richest veins in the Brown Derby's field of political resources. Potent Jews seem to be preponderantly Democratic this year. Many of them were Woodrow Wilson's friends. They include Bernard Mannes Baruch, Jesse Isidore Straus,* Louis Marshal, Julius Rosenwald, Otto Hermann Kahn, Philadelphia's Gimbels...
...President of R. H. Macy & Co. His younger brother, Herbert N. Straus, Macy's secretary and treasurer, was last week appointed New York state treasurer of Hooverism (see page...
Merchant Percy Straus of Manhattan...
...Juniors who have received appointments as Class Day Ushers for Tuesday, June 19, should notify A. E. French '29, Straus 27, at once if they will be able to serve in that capacity. The list of men must be compiled before the end of the week...