The design for a memorial to the late Oscar S. Straus, who was Secretary of Commerce and Labour in President Roosevelt’s administration, has been approved by the Fine Arts Commission and the Board of Consultant Architects of Washington, where the memorial is to be erected by the Oscar S. Straus Memorial Association. The memorial, which was authorised by an Act of Congress in 1929, will occupy a site at the head of the plaza in front of the new building of the Ministry of Commerce.
The estimated cost of the memorial is 225,000 dollars, which is expected to be raised in the near future.
President Hoover is Honorary President of the Oscar S. Straus Memorial Association and Mr. Henry Morgenthau is Vice-President.
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