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	Nathan Straus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nathan Straus (sometimes Strauss) (1848–1931) was an American merchant and philanthropist.
		Nathan Straus also served as New York City Park Commissioner from 1889–1893.
		Nathan and his wife decided to remain behind, while Isidor and his wife Ida planned to return to the US—via the ill-fated luxury oceanliner RMS Titanic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nathan_Strauss (238 words)

	Straus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oscar Straus Memorial, memorial in Washington, DC commemorates the accomplishments of Oscar Solomon Straus.
		The earliest member known was one Lazarus Straus, born in the first half of the eighteenth century, whose son Jacob Lazarus Straus was known also as Jacques Lazare.
		Lazarus was elected in the department of Mont Tonnerre for the Assembly of Jewish Notables convened by Napoleon in Paris July 26, 1806, preliminary to the establishment of the French Sanhedrin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Straus (415 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - STRAUS: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Straus was active in the campaign which resulted in the election of President Cleveland in 1884, and was appointed minister plenipotentiary to Turkey in 1887 at the suggestion of Henry Ward Beecher.
		In 1902, on the death of ex-President Harrison, Straus was appointed by President Roosevelt to succeed him as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, this high honor being given him in recognition of his diplomatic service and knowledge of international relations.
		Straus is a trustee of the Baron de Hirsch Fund.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=1124&letter=S (1103 words)

	NATHAN STRAUS TOLD : New York Times (1912) - 18 April 1912
		A cablegram was sent yesterday to Nathan Straus, who is in Rome, breaking the news to him that Isidor Straus and Mrs.
		Straus are among the missing from the Titanic disaster.
		Jesse Straus, son of Isidor Straus, with his wife and daughter, are passengers on the incoming Hamburg-American liner Amerika.
	www.encyclopedia-titanica.org /item/3921 (143 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Saint Straus
		Born in Otterberg, in Rhenish Bavaria, in 1848, Nathan Straus was the second of the four children of Lazarus Straus.
		Nathan dabbled in politics, serving as the city’s park commissioner from 1889 to 1893.
		Straus immediately saw to it that his own children drank pasteurized milk and characteristically set to work both to provide it to needy children and to have the process legally mandated for all milk sold.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1990/5/1990_5_14.shtml (1702 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Straus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Isidor, with his brother Nathan, became associated with R. Macy and Company in 1874, became a partner in 1888, and by 1896 had acquired ownership of the firm.
		New York City, son of the elder Nathan Straus, was a journalist and public official.
		Ellen Straus, matriarch of a pioneering organic dairy family and co-founder of the first agricultural land trust in the United States.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/s/straus.asp (574 words)

	SYNAGOGUE UNVEILS A STRAUS WINDOW : New York Times (1912) - 27 May 1912
		Ida Straus, was unveiled by Edward Lauterbach in the presence of several members of the Straus family.
		Kohns, a sister of Isidor Straus, with her son Lee Kohns, a Trustee of the College of the City of New York.
		Lauterbach told of a long and intimate acquaintance with the Straus family, beginning with Lazarus Straus, the father of Isidor and Nathan Straus and Mrs.
	www.encyclopedia-titanica.org /item/1748 (588 words)

	NATHAN STRAUS PLAYGROUND - Historical Sign
		Nathan’s formal education included Sunday School classes with a Baptist minister and preparatory schooling in Georgia; advanced studies, religious instruction, and Hebrew lessons in Alabama; and professional training at Packard Business College in New York City, where the family moved after the civil war.
		As a philanthropist, Nathan gave generously to support health, disaster relief, and charity, and he championed the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.
		Twenty-five years after the death of Nathan Straus, the City of New York acquired land on the two blocks in the Lower East Side for a new elementary school and playground.
	nycgovparks.org /sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=256 (543 words)

	Straus
		Oscar Straus - Straus, Oscar, 1870–1954, Austrian composer; studied in Vienna and with Max Bruch in Berlin.
		Isidor STRAUS - STRAUS, Isidor (1845—1912) STRAUS, Isidor, a Representative from New York; born in Otterberg,...
		Ralph Straus REGULA - REGULA, Ralph Straus (1924—) REGULA, Ralph Straus, a Representative from Ohio; born in Beach...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0846917.html (452 words)

	Pasteurize or Certify: Two Solutions To "The Milk Problem"
		Straus, a businessman turned crusader-philanthropist, was the founder and subsidizer of New York City's Milk Depots, outlets that provided pasteurized milk at low cost for the city's poor; he became the chief advocate and spokesperson for the compulsory pasteurization of all milk.
		Straus (1848-1931) made his fortune in business and then dedicated some thirty years of his life to championing the pasteurization of the milk supply in New York and other cities throughout America and Europe.
		Straus, Jacobi and others were convinced that many of these diseases were spread by milk and that many deaths could be prevented if the milk supply to the cities were pasteurized.
	www.realmilk.com /untoldstory_1.html (3933 words)

	GeorgiaInfo - Carl Vinson Institute of Government
		The sons, Isidor, Nathan and Oscar studied at nearby Collinsworth Institute.
		NATHAN STRAUS, leader in the fight for pasteurization of milk and a pioneer in other health reforms, was known throughout his life as a great philanthropist.
		The Straus family is honored, not for its wealth, but for its outstanding contribution to the American way of life.
	www.cviog.uga.edu /Projects/gainfo/gahistmarkers/straushomehistmarker.htm (237 words)

	Jewish Heroes in America
		Straus became park commissioner in New York City (1889-93) and president of the board of health in 1898.
		In Palestine, Straus established a domestic science school for girls in 1912, a health bureau to fight malaria and trachoma, and a free public kitchen.
		Straus was hailed as the greatest Jew in the last quarter of a century by President Taft.
	www.fau.edu /library/brody38.htm (558 words)

	Straus Historical Society
		Lazarus Straus, son of Isaac and Johanette Straus, was born in Otterberg Germany in 1809.
		In 1873 Nathan convinced Rowland H. Macy to allow them to open a concession in the basement of Macy's store on 14th Street.
		Nathan used his boundless energies to develop outside sources for the family business.
	www.straushistoricalsociety.org /l_ss.php (558 words)

	GI Washington - Virtual Tour - Oscar Straus Memorial
		In 1854, Oscar S. Straus, then a small child, came with his mother, sister, and brothers to the United States, joining their father, Lazarus, who had emigrated in 1852.
		Straus was also a staunch proponent of American entry into the League of Nations and worked on behalf of Jewish refugees after World War I. He died in New York in 1926.
		Oscar Straus's brother, Nathan, was a distinguished public health reformer and philanthropist.
	www.goethe.de /ins/us/was/pro/vtour/dc1/A3/35/en_index.htm (466 words)

	Isidor Straus - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Straus, Isidor (1845-1912), American merchant, born in Otterberg, Germany.
		Straus, Nathan (1848-1931), American merchant and philanthropist, born in Otterberg, Germany.
		Like his brother, Isidor Straus, he went to the U.S....
	encarta.msn.com /Isidor_Straus.html (109 words)

	Straus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Rhenish Bavaria, emigrated (1854) with his brothers to the United States in order to join their father, Lazarus Straus, who had already settled in Talbotton, Ga. The family moved (1865) to New York City, and there Isidor took a large part in forming and directing the importing firm of L. Straus & Sons.
		Isidor, with his brother Nathan, became associated with R. Macy & Company in 1874, became a partner in 1888, and by 1896 had acquired ownership of the firm.
		A son of Isidor Straus, Jesse Isidor Straus, 1872–1936, b.
	www.bartleby.com /65/st/Straus.html (460 words)

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		His guides were anxious for Straus to view historical sights and tourist attractions which were the pride of Jerusalem, but Nathan insisted on visiting the "real" city within the walls, the habitations and institutions of the impoverished residents.
		Nathan Straus, a somewhat secular Jew affiliated with the Reform movement in New York, grasped the essential fact that the study of Torah was an end unto itself and that this was the chosen vocations of many Jerusalemites, despite the absence of financial reward.
		The Straus soup kitchen in Jerusalem's Batei Warsaw district and the network of food distribution centers Nathan Straus founded changed the face of the Yishuv (the pre-state settlement of Jews in the Holy Land).
	www.jewishworldreview.com /0298/titanic1.html (3406 words)

	W. S. Straus Wed To Ms. Weinstein - New York Times
		Straus, a graduate of the Collegiate School, Choate Rosemary Hall and Brown, is the son of Irving Lehman Straus and Mrs.
		His father is the chairman of the Straus Marketing Communications Group, a public relations concern in New York, and is a partner in the Financial Relations Board.
		The bridegroom is a grandson of the late Nathan Straus, a Democratic New York State Senator, the administrator of the United States Housing Authority in the Roosevelt Administration and a chairman of WMCA-Radio in New York.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE7DB1630F931A15756C0A96E948260 (222 words)

	HORSE SENSE - Daily Plant Newsletter
		The man responsible for bringing this issue to light was Nathan Straus (1848-1931), a German immigrant who, with his brother Isador, bought Macy’s department store from R.H. Macy in 1896 and maintained a partnership in Brooklyn’s Abraham and Straus department store.
		Nathan promoted the welfare of Macy’s employees by providing a dining hall with full meals for just five cents; offering personal gifts of money, clothing, and medical treatment; and, with his brother, establishing a Mutual Aid Society.
		Though Straus had long since retired from public service and died about six months after this article came out, he still took the time to speak out on behalf of the horse riders of New York.
	www.nycgovparks.org /sub_newsroom/daily_plants/daily_plant_main.php?id=19620 (639 words)

	German American Corner: STRAUS, Nathan (1848-1931) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		STRAUS, Nathan (1848-1931), German-American, merchant and philanthropist, born in Otterberg, Germany.
		Like his brother, Isidor Straus, he immigrated to the U.S. in 1854.
		Straus served as park commissioner of New York City from 1889 to 1893.
	www.germanheritage.com /biographies/mtoz/strausn.html (126 words)

	The Battle for Press Control
		The whole "war" culminated in a contention which arose between Bennett and Nathan Straus, a German-Jew whose business house was known under the name of "R. Macy and Company," Macy being the Scotsman who built up the business and from whose heirs Straus obtained it.
		Straus was something of a philanthropist in the ghetto, but the story goes that Bennett's failure to proclaim him as a philanthropist led to ill-feeling.
		Jewish speakers made the welkin ring with laudation of Nathan Straus and maledictions upon James Bennett.
	www.biblebelievers.org.au /ij_ch15.htm (2785 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Straub to Streeper
		Brother of Oscar Solomon Straus; father of Jesse Isidor Straus; grandfather of
		Straus, Oscar Solomon (1850-1926) — also known as Oscar S. Straus — of New York.
		Brother of Isidor Straus; uncle of Jesse Isidor Straus.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/straub-streeb.html (927 words)

	Sinking of the Titanic - CHAPTER IV
		The list of notables included Colonel John Jacob Astor, head of the Astor family, whose fortune is estimated at $150,000,000; Isidor Straus, merchant and banker ($50,000,000); J.
		He was a member of the Fifty-third Congress from 1893 to 1895, and as a friend of William L. Wilson was in constant consultation in the matter of the former Wilson tariff bill.
		Straus was conspicuous for his works of charity and was an ardent supporter of every enterprise to improve the condition of the Hebrew immigrants.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/english/SinkingoftheTitanic/chap4.html (1896 words)

	Chapter 12a - I.P. Protection of Digital Rights in the New Millennium
		The Straus brothers (d/b/a R.H. Macy), inveterate price cutters, were responsible for further development of the doctrine in respect of price fixing.
		Straus, supra, for copyrighted books, the Court refused to give effect to the price—restrictive “license.” Straus v.
		Straus, the Court held that the price condition was contrary to the general law, and also “not within the monopoly conferred by the patent law."
	docs.law.gwu.edu /facweb/claw/ch12a.htm (16375 words)

	Mr. & Mrs. Nathan Straus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On December 21, 1994 Federated Department Stores, Inc announced the acquisition of R H. Macy and Co Inc On January 18, 1995 Federated announced the merger of Abraham and Straus with the Macys, Bloomingdales and Sterns chains.
		Abraham Abraham, Nathan Straus and their families summered in twin cottdges on Cherry Island in the Thousand Islands of
		In announcing their decision to merge the two chains but to discontinue the Abraham and Straus name, Federated Department Stores stated that the two stores always "shared a tradition of offering unsurpassed value and the best possible selection ".
	www.information-engineer.com /straus/nstraus.htm (523 words)

	Guide to the Papers of Max James Kohler (1871-1934),undated, [1765]-1963 (bulk 1888-1935)P-7
		According to Nathan M. Kaganoff's article "AJHS at 90: Reflections on the History of the Oldest Ethnic Historical Society in America," toward the end of the 19th century, Jews were coming under considerable attack regarding their legitimacy as American citizens, particularly in light of increasing numbers of Eastern European and Russian Jews emigrating to America.
		To this end, Straus gave many personal letters and documents to Kohler from the de Hirsches and their family, as well as personal correspondence between Straus and the de Hirsches.
		(Straus wrote to Kohler that the Judge's "letter and decisions disposes of the abuse unjustly heaped upon him [the Baron] growing out of jealousy mixed with prejudice.") It was Kohler's closer investigation of the Baron's financial life that was causing a stir, though Kohler by no means was focusing solely on the Baron's financial life.
	www.cjh.org /academic/findingaids/ajhs/nhprc/MJKohler.html (7566 words)

	Paid Notice: Deaths JACOBSON, ROSALIND (NEE BUCHLER), ''MRS. J,'' - New York Times
		She was the former President of the Nathan Straus Jewish Center in the Bronx.
		She was a true community leader, becoming President of the Nathan Straus Jewish Center-the first female to occupy such a position.
		She was honored with the Citation of Honor at the 1987 dinner of the Educational Centers in Israel of the Rabbinical Council of America for her extraordinary generosity.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9500E0DA133DF93BA25750C0A9679C8B63 (402 words)

	Isador Straus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		With his brother Nathan Straus he became a partner in the R. Macy department store in 1888.
		Straus served in the House of Representatives (1894-95).
		Straus and his wife, Ida Straus, lost their lives when the Titanic sunk in 1912.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAstraus.htm (133 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		If it weren't for Nathan Straus, you might be dead." ··· One evening Mr.
		Straus, a wealthy department store owner in New York, was watching his cow being milked.
		One in three children died before the age of 5 in New York, usually of tuberculosis.
	www.adventist.org /bible_study/devotionals/data/2003/10-3.txt (263 words)

	FORWARD : Looking Back (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		• Oscar S. Straus, the first Jew to be a Cabinet officer in America, has died of a heart attack in his New York home at 1010 Fifth Ave.
		He was 2 years old when he and his family immigrated to America from Bavaria in 1852; his brother Nathan Straus, the renowned philanthropist and Zionist Nathan Straus, was 6 Their brother, Isidor Straus, died on the Titanic.
		In 1887 President Grover Cleveland appointed Oscar Straus the American ambassador to Turkey.
	www.forward.com /issues/2001/01.05.04/lookingback.html (390 words)

	Women’s Rights, Exotic Animals Take Center Stage In 1915 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On April 10, the Star-Journal reported that Nathan Straus, head of R.H. Macy and Company and the dry goods firm of Abraham and Straus, was the defendant in lawsuits brought by Mrs.
		Nathan Straus was being sued for the sum of $1,000.
		However, the jury sitting in the Long Island City Municipal Court was unable to agree on a verdict and the cases were sent back for retrial.
	www.qgazette.com /News/2003/0507/Feature_Stories/001.html (1224 words)

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