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Responding to this condition, many a rich U. S. Jew followed last week the example of Manhattan dry goods merchant Nathan Straus who cabled $25,000 to Palestine, instructing that it be used for feeding and caring for earthquake sufferers without distinction of race or creed...
Cheers. Upon the appearance of the recantation comments?both cheers and jeers broke forth at once. Some potent Jews, including Nathan Straus and Otto Hermann Kahn, resolutely refused to talk. Some cheers...
...Howard Elliott, President of the Harvard Board of Overseers and President of the Board of the Northern Pacific Railroad; T. W. Lamont '92 of J. P. Morgan and Company; J. P. Morgan '89 of J. P. Morgan and Company; James Simpson, President of Marshall Field and Company; H. N. Straus '03 of the firm of R. H. Macy and Company; and Gerard Swope, President of the General Electric Company...
Jesse Isidor and Herbert Straus, potent brothers, part owners of R.H. Macy & Co. (Manhattan department store): "Last week we went back to the old homestead in Talbotton, Ga., where Grandfather Lazarus Straus, fresh from Bavaria, began to be a U.S. merchant in 1848. His shack is still standing, but the original store had burned down. In the public square, the citizens spread for us a barbecue. As we were munching sandwiches, a withered man came up, shook our hands, said: 'Isidor Straus [our father, one the three sons of Lazarus] was the best Latin student I ever...
...Whedon '27 and E.F. Clark '28 collaborated in writing the book, while Joseph Alger '22, J.F. Bradlee '27, E.F. Craig '25, W.C. Harris '28, C.E. Henderson '28 and R.M. Whittemore '29 composed the music. The lyrics are the combined work of Joseph Alger '22, E.F. Craig '25, R.K. Straus '27 and J.O. Whedon...