Retailers, after a plethora of businesses left the Village in the 1980s and early 1990s, notably retail giant, Abraham & Straus, were once again developing interest in the village due to the aggressive revitalization efforts of former Mayor George Milhim, who served from 1980 to 1989, and former Community Development Agency Commissioner, Glen Spiritis.

" Hubbard then added his own stirring commentary: " Mr. and Mrs. Straus, I envy you that legacy of love and loyalty left to your children and grandchildren.

Roosevelt was the first president to appoint a representative of the Jewish minority to a cabinet position – Secretary of Commerce and Labor, Oscar S. Straus, 1906 – 09.

Straus ' paternal grandfather, Oscar Straus, served as Secretary of Commerce and Labor under President Theodore Roosevelt and was the first Jewish member of a U. S. Cabinet.

Oscar Solomon Straus ( December 23, 1850 – May 3, 1926 ) was United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor under President Theodore Roosevelt from 1906 to 1909.

In December 1906, Straus became the United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor under President Theodore Roosevelt.

Oscar Solomon Straus served as Secretary of Commerce and Labor under President Theodore Roosevelt from 1906 to 1909.

* Oscar Straus ( politician ) ( 1850 – 1936 ), United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor from 1906 to 1909

* Oscar Straus ( December 23, 1850 – May 3, 1926 ), United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor under President Theodore Roosevelt from 1906 to 1909 ( brother of Isidor )

Also in 1929, Filene ’ s joined Abraham & Straus and Lazarus as the founding members of Federated Department Stores.

Philanthropist Nathan Straus opened the first preventorium on Preventorium Road in Lakewood, New Jersey in 1909.

Frank Straus Meyer ( 1909 – 1972 ) was an American philosopher and political activist best known for his theory of " fusionism " – a political philosophy that unites elements of libertarianism and traditionalism into a philosophical synthesis which is posited as the definition of modern American conservatism.

Other similar measures were proposed, but also failed to pass ( the Poe Amendment in 1905 and the Straus Amendment in 1909 ).

According to legend, Scrabble's big break came in 1952 when Jack Straus, president of Macy's, played the game on vacation.

Ownership of the company was passed down through the Macy family until 1895, when the company, now called " R. H. Macy & Co .", was acquired by Isidor Straus and his brother Nathan Straus, who had previously held a license to sell china and other goods in the Macy's store.

He demonstrated musical aptitude in his second-grade choral class, and when his teacher sent a note home suggesting he take piano lessons, his mother took a part-time job in an Abraham & Straus department store for six months to pay for a second-hand upright.

The Abraham & Straus location at Roosevelt Field only lasted until 1995, when the chain became defunct.

Straus continued to run the company for twenty years after his partner Farrar died, until 1993 when he sold a majority interest of the company to the privately owned German publishing conglomerate Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.

In 1950, stockholder Stanley Young was recognized when the company was renamed Farrar, Straus & Young.

In 1943, it was acquired by the Straus family when previous owner Edward J. Noble acquired the Blue Network and its O & O stations from NBC.

Ownership of the store passed to the Macy's family until 1895, when it was sold to Isidor and Nathan Straus.

It was privately held until the late 1990s when it was sold to Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC, a group of publishing companies held by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, a family owned publishing concern based in Stuttgart, Germany, which owns St. Martin's as well as other U. S. publishing houses, including Farrar, Straus and Giroux ( of mostly literary fiction ), Holt Publishers ( literary non-fiction ), and Tor-Forge Books ( science fiction, fantasy, and thrillers ).

Rochester is represented by state Senator Michael Rodrigues ( D-Westport ) as a part of the First Bristol and Plymouth District of the Massachusetts Senate and by state Representative William M. Straus ( D-Mattapoisett ) as a part of the Tenth Bristol District of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

The cenotaph of Ida Straus serves as the gravestone for her husband Isidor Straus at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, and the striking cenotaph of Major Archibald Butt, aide to US President William Taft, is located at Arlington National Cemetery.

* O ' Toole, Fintan, White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America ; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

* Bentley Glass, Owsei Temkin, William L. Straus, Jr. Forerunners of Darwin, 1745-1859 ( The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1968 ) ISBN 0-8018-0222-9

* Howard Straus, Dr. Max Gerson: Healing the Hopeless ( Kingston, Ontario, Canada: Quarry Books, 2001 )

Former Weismann performers at the reunion include Max and Stella Deems, who lost their radio jobs and became store owners in Miami ; Solange La Fitte, a coquette, who is still vibrant three decades later ; Hattie Walker, who has outlived five younger husbands ; Vincent and Vanessa, former dancers who now own an Arthur Murray franchise ; Heidi Schiller, for whom Franz Lehár once wrote a waltz ( or was it Oscar Straus?

When Shaw gave Leopold Jacobson the rights to adapt the play into what became the 1908 operatta The Chocolate Soldier with music by Oscar Straus, he provided three conditions: none of Shaw's dialogue, nor any of his character's names, could be used ; the libretto must be advertised as being a parody of Shaw's work ; and Shaw would accept no monetary compensation.

In 1886 Geneviève married Émile Straus, a rich lawyer ; she became a famous Parisian society hostess and a close friend of, among others, Marcel Proust.

The couple had a son, David Rieff, who later became his mother's editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, as well as a writer.

In February 1933, a month after Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, the SS searched Luise Straus ' apartment.

The company became known as Farrar Straus & Giroux in 1964 with Giroux ’ s appointment as chairman of the board.

The FSG brand became so renown that author Scott Turow turned down a $ 350, 000 advance for his first novel, " Presumed Innocent ," from a rival publisher so that he could work with Straus, who offered him $ 200, 000.

Straus became chairman of the EMCC board, and American Totalisator received 40 percent of the stock.

The location was decided upon near the ancient site of Poleg and it was decided to name it in honor of Nathan ( Hebrew: Natan ) Straus ( 1848 – 1931 ), co-owner of Macy ’ s department store, New York City Parks Commissioner, and president of the New York City Board of Health, who gifted two-thirds of his personal fortune to projects benefiting Jews and Arabs in Palestine.

In 1931, New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt named R. H. Macy's department store president Jesse Straus as president of the Temporary Emergency Relief Administration ( TERA ).

The Oscar S. Straus Memorial in Washington, D. C., commemorates the accomplishments of the first Jew to serve in the cabinet of a U. S. president.

Original estimates for the development costs proved to be extremely unrealistic, and by the summer of 1948, EMCC had just about run out of money, but it was temporarily saved by Harry L. Straus, vice president of the American Totalisator Company, a Baltimore company that made electromechanical totalisators.

Distributed in the U. S. by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

London: Egmont / Mammoth, 2000: ISBN 1-4052-1282-9 ( U. S. Edition: New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2001: ISBN 0-374-31544-2 )

As in Bobbs-Merrill Co v. Straus, 210 U. S. 339 ( 1908 ) with copyright, the court found that restrictions could not be extended beyond the statute through the use of a license.

The doctrine was first recognized by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1908 ( see Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus ) and subsequently codified in the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U. S. C.

* Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus, 210 U. S. 339 ( 1908 )-- helped establish " first-sale doctrine " in United States copyright law

By his exertions Straus successfully halted any steps to expel American citizens who happened to be Jews (" U. S. For.

The company was plaintiff in Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus, 210 U. S. 339 ( 1908 ), a case regarded as the origin of copyright's First Sale Doctrine.

His first book, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, a cultural history of music since 1900, was released in the U. S. in 2007 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and in the U. K. in 2008.

His second book, Listen to This, was released in the U. S. in September 2010 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and was published in the U. K. in November 2010.