One of the most desirable sites in Washington has been offered the Oscar S. Straus Memorial Association by the Treasury Department as a site for the memorial to the memory of the late Oscar S. Straus, according to an announcement yesterday by William Loeb, president of the association. This site is at the entrance to the Great Plaza, facing the new Commerce Building, which has been described by President Hoover as “the noblest governmental building in the world.”
The directors of the association at their meeting yesterday formally accepted the offer of this site, which was proffered them in accordance with the Act of Congress signed by President Coolidge on March 4, 1929. The Executive Committee was directed to secure the services of John Russell Pope to draft some tentative design for the memorial.
The following were elected to the board of directors of the association: Dr. Mary Mills Patrick, former president of the Constantinople College for Women; Hon. Simon W. Rosendale of Albany, formerly Attorney General of New York; and Dr. Albert Shaw, editor of Review of Reviews. All of these were close personal friends of Mr. Straus.
Oscar S. Straus served under four presidents. He was Minister to Turkey under Cleveland and McKinley; Ambassador to Turkey under Taft; and Secretary of Commerce and Labor in President Roosevelt’s Cabinet. President Roosevelt also appointed him as a member of The Hague Court, which appointment was renewed by President Wilson.
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