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unusual facts about Harry L. Straus


Harry L. Straus

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


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.

Brand of the Devil

Brand of the Devil is a 1944 American western directed by Harry L. Fraser for Producers Releasing Corporation.

Corl

Harry L. Corl (1914-1942), a United States Navy officer and Navy Cross recipient

Earl Fuller

The collection was available both as a piano folio and as a set of orchestral parts arranged by Harry L. Alford, whom Fuller brought out from Chicago to make the arrangements; among other pieces in the collection were early works composed by future bandleaders Lou Gold and Irving Aaronson.

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.

Harold Fraser

Harry L. Fraser (unclear if this was short for Harold), film director

Harry L. Fisher

Fisher was born on Jan. 19, 1885, in Kingston, New York His father was the engineer, who in 1883, took the first locomotive from Kingston, N. Y., to Weehawken, New Jersey, along the tracks of the old New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railroad.

Harry L. Gordon

Mayor Tafel appointed him a member of the Board of Supervisors, and he became president of the body in 1900.

Harry L. Haines

Haines attended the State Normal School at Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, and Patrick's Business College at York, Pennsylvania.

Harry L. Hansen

He studied at Haverford College in 1933, and continued on at Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration to earn his master's degree in 1935, and a doctorate in 1939.

After his years at Harvard, he took the position of dean of Institut pour l'Etude des Methodes de Direction de l'Entreprise in Lausanne, Switzerland until 1981, and then became a distinguished professor at Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa (IESE), in Barcelona, Spain.

Harry L. Martin

He was a member of Sigma Alpha Fraternity and served two years in the Cavalry unit of the ROTC.

Harry L. Maynard

Maynard was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1911).

Harry L. Norris

Mr. Norris lived with his wife and 3 children for many years on Leeds Avenue in Arbutus, Maryland, a short walk from the railroad tracks.

Harry L. Rattenberry

His parents were William Henry Rattenberry (1834-1889) and Mary Ann Broomhead (c. 1829-1909), a former wife of notable Mormon missionary Cyrus H. Wheelock.

Harry L. Sears

He was instrumental in passing legislation that created the New Jersey Lottery and the Meadowlands Sports Complex, signed into law by Governor Cahill.

He was the New Jersey chairman for the 1972 re-election campaign of President Richard Nixon and was later indicted on charges stemming from the secret delivery of $200,000 from financier Robert Vesco to Nixon's campaign.

Harry L. Watson

Harry L. Watson is an American historian of the antebellum American South, Jacksonian America, and the history of North Carolina.

Harry Shapiro

Harry L. Shapiro (1902–1990), American author, eugenicist, and professor of anthropology

International Controls Corporation

Vesco wanted Richard Nixon's Attorney General John N. Mitchell to intercede on his behalf with SEC chairman William J. Casey, and in April 1972 he sent his counsel, former New Jersey State Senator Harry L. Sears, along with ICC president Lawrence Richardson, to deliver a cash contribution of $200,000 to Maurice Stans, finance chairman for the Committee to Re-elect the President.

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.

Melvin H. Ribble

In 1898 he moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he obtained work as a staff arranger with Harry L. Alford's music publishing company.

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.

Robert Vesco

As counsel to International Controls Corporation, New Jersey lawyer Harry L. Sears delivered the contribution to Maurice Stans, finance chairman for the Committee to Re-elect the President.

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.

Russell Ott

Harry L. Ott, Jr., Russell's father, represented the 93rd district in the South Carolina House of Representatives, but resigned on June 30, 2013, to take a job with the Farm Service Agency.

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.

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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