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...grateful for the opportunity this country has given me to make a place in the world for myself," said Danish-born Peter Strobel in June 1954 to Washington newsmen. "By taking this job perhaps I can partly pay back this country." With that, Strobel left Strobel & Salzman, a Manhattan engineering partnership that paid him about $100,000 annually, for the $14,800-a-year job of Public Buildings Commissioner in the General Services Administration. As such, Strobel had charge of letting millions of dollars of contracts...
Freund asked that two prizes be awarded, the amount and frequency to be determined by the President and Fellows, to the author of the most outstanding book in the field of International Law, in memory of Henry Strobel, first Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School; and to the anther of the most outstanding book in the field of European History, in memory of Silas Marcuse MacVain, one-time professor of history at Harvard College...
Composer Liebermann got his idea from a news clipping he read two years ago. Blending it with Homer's Odyssey, Librettist Heinrich Strobel wove a modern story about a war widow (Penelope) who remarries, then hears that her husband (Ulysses) is still alive and about to return. When she goes to meet him at the station, she finds he has died on the way; and when she goes back home to her second husband, she finds that he has committed suicide in the meantime to save her from an impossible dilemma...
...Public Buildings Commissioner, Engineer Strobel will operate nearly 6,000 Government buildings, control 118 million sq. ft. of floor space, boss the National Industrial Reserve (45 factories with 9,000 pieces of machinery) and supervise new construction (last year's total: 132 buildings...
...When Strobel's name was proposed by the Republican National Committee, Ed Mansure looked up his record and, duly impressed by his professional qualifications, offered Strobel the job. "My wife thinks I'm crazy," said Strobel, who will incur a pay cut from his present $100,000 or more to $14,800, but he did not hesitate to accept. Said he: "Perhaps I can partly pay back this country for what it has done...