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3 unusual facts about Abraham & Straus


Frances Bemis

She then went to Atlanta to become Director of Special Events at Rich's Department Store (1946–1947), then back to New York to take a position as Director of Feature Events at Abraham & Straus Department Store, where she worked until 1954.

S. Klein

S. Klein positioned itself as a step above regional discount stores of its time (Two Guys, Great Eastern Mills), more fashion aware than E. J. Korvette, and a more affordable option compared to traditional department stores like Macy's, or Abraham & Straus.

Violet Barclay

She eventually segued into fashion illustration, working for some years for such national retail chains as Lane Bryant and Abraham & Straus.


Abraham Abraham

Among Abraham's many notable descendants are grandson Donald B. Straus, an educator, author, and advisor, great-great-granddaughter Nina Rothschild Utne, a magazine publisher, and great-great-great-grandson Arthur Bradford, an author and director.

Harry L. Straus

On April 26, 1927, Harry Straus was at a racetrack in Havre de Grace, Maryland.

Mary Lutyens

Krishnamurti: The Years of Fulfilment, London: John Murray, 1983, ISBN 0-7195-3979-X, Farrar, Straus, Giroux paperback: ISBN 0-374-18224-8, Avon Books 1991 reprint with US spelling "Fulfillment": ISBN 0-380-71112-5.

Michael W. Straus

Straus's tenure at Reclamation during the late 1940s coincided with one of the Bureau's most intensive period of concrete dam-building, with numerous structures built in the Columbia River, the Colorado River drainage, and other major watersheds across the American West.

On the other hand, the electrical power generated by the Bureau of Reclamation dams constructed duiring this period has become an essential element in the lives of millions of people in Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and neighboring states.

Through Nancy he was a brother-in-law of photographer Eliot Porter and painter Fairfield Porter.

Rochester, Massachusetts

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.

Western Behavioral Sciences Institute

Student participants included CEOs of major corporations, high-ranking U.S. Army generals, scientists, renowned writers and other professionals including Paul Funk, Barry McCaffrey, Gloria Feldt, Donald B. Straus, Marlon Brando, Wesley Clark, Michael Crichton, Wayne Peterson and many others.


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