Statesmen and Leaders Pay Tribute to His Achievements
Nathan Straus, Grand Old Man of American Jewry, benefactor of Palestine and leading philanthropist, celebrates his eightieth birthday today, Sunday, January 29th.
Messages of congratulation from all parts of the world were received at Mr. Straus’s home, ‘Driftwood,’ at Mamaroneck, N.Y.
On this occasion many tributes were paid to Mr. Straus in a special Nathan Straus issue of the “New Palestine,” the official organ of the Zionist Organization of America and in an album prepared by Herman Bernstein containing messages from President Coolidge, the Governors of twenty-eight States and many other prominent statesmen and leaders.
Among the Governors who have voiced their tribute to Mr. Straus is Alfred E. Smith of New York.
Others who contributed to the book are Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War; Charles Evans Hughes, Senator Royal S. Copeland, Josephus Daniels, former Secretary of the Navy; Herbert Hoover, Colonel Edward M. House, Frank B. Kellogg. Secretary of State; W. M. Jardine, Secretary of Agriculture; Julian W. Mack. Lawyer; Louis Marshall. Ancrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury; Judge George W. Olvany. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Mayor James J. Walker, Clarence Darrow, Commissioner of Health Louis I. Harris, Jane Addams. Evangeline Booth. Sir R. L. Borden of Ottaw, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, the Rev. S. Parkes Cadman. Robert W. de Forest, Professor Irving Fisher of Yale. Haley Fiske. Colonel M. Friedsam. Cardinal Hayes. John Haynes ## William ## Manning, the ## brothers Sir Alfred ## George Foster Pea## John J. ## John D. ## Jr. John Sparg? Dr. Henry ## and Chief Rabbi J. H. ## of London English.
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