TY - GEN AU - Straus,Oscar S. ED - Oscar S. Straus Memorial Association. TI - Oscar S. Straus papers, KW - Bacon, Robert, KW - Barrett, John, KW - Bayard, Thomas F. KW - Butler, Nicholas Murray, KW - Carnegie, Andrew, KW - Cleveland, Grover, KW - Coolidge, Calvin, KW - Easley, Ralph M. KW - Garfield, James Rudolph, KW - Griscom, Lloyd Carpenter, KW - Harding, Warren G. KW - Harrison, Benjamin, KW - Hay, John, KW - Kohns, Lee, KW - Lansing, Robert, KW - Lavanburg, Louis. KW - Loeb, William, KW - McKinley, William, KW - Ochs, Adolph S. KW - Peabody, George Foster, KW - Roosevelt, Theodore, KW - Root, Elihu, KW - Straus, Isidor, KW - Straus, Nathan, KW - Taft, William H. KW - Wilson, Woodrow, KW - Strauss family. KW - New York (State) KW - Public Service Commission KW - United States KW - Department of Commerce and Labor KW - League to Enforce Peace (U.S.) KW - National Civic Federation KW - Permanent Court of Arbitration KW - Industrial Conference KW - (1919-1920 KW - Washington, D.C.) KW - Arbitration (International law) KW - Diplomatic and consular service, American KW - Turkey KW - Industrial relations KW - Labor policy KW - Freedom of religion KW - Wages KW - Railroads KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - Egypt KW - Description and travel KW - Romania KW - Russia KW - Foreign relations KW - History KW - Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 KW - Economic policy KW - Authors KW - itoamc KW - Businessmen KW - Cabinet officers KW - Diplomats KW - Lawyers N1 - Open to research; Microfilm of scrapbook selections available; no. 8,924 N2 - Correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, notebooks, legal records, pamphlets, clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, memorabilia, and other papers relating chiefly to Straus's service as U.S. minister and ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (Turkey), U.S. secretary of commerce and labor, and member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, Hague, Netherlands. Also documents his activities with the National Civic Foundation, New York (State) Public Service Commission, League to Enforce Peace, and the Industrial Conference held in Washington, D.C., 1919-1920. Subjects include a visit to Egypt in 1888, railway wage negotiations, religious liberty in the Ottoman Empire, Romania, Russia, World War I, and Louis Lavanburg. Includes records (1927-1954) of the Oscar S. Straus Memorial Association, Straus (Strauss) family papers, and a privately printed autobiography of Straus's brother, Isidor Straus. Correspondents include Robert Bacon, John Barrett, Thomas F. Bayard, Nicholas Murray Butler, Andrew Carnegie, Grover Cleveland, Calvin Coolidge, Ralph M. Easley, James Rudolph Garfield, Lloyd Carpenter Griscom, Warren G. Harding, Benjamin Harrison, John Hay, Lee Kohns, Robert Lansing, William Loeb, William McKinley, Adolph S. Ochs, George Foster Peabody, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Isidor Straus, Nathan Straus, William H. Taft, and Woodrow Wilson UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011238 UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011238.3 ER -