Straus, Oscar S. (Oscar Solomon), 1850-1926

President Roosevelt has heard that Secretary of State Elihu Root and Secretary of Commerce and Labor Oscar S. Straus believe that the actions of Mary Mills Patrick and her associates in Constantinople are wrong. He has cabled Ambassador John George Alexander Leishman about the matter. The United States will not interfere in internal Turkish matters and will not threaten force unless it intends to use it.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-04-24

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt will send Secretary of Commerce and Labor Oscar S. Straus to speak at the City College of New York in his place.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-04-24

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks George Robert Carter, former Governor of Hawaii, for the letter and will show it to Secretary of Commerce and Labor Oscar S. Straus.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-23

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Secretary of Commerce and Labor Oscar S. Straus and Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock both agree that some of the proposed changes to the bill mentioned will result in serious trouble. President Roosevelt would like for Secretary of State Root to meet with Straus and report back to him the outcome of the conversation. Roosevelt has asked for the bill to be held up in the senate, or he will have to veto it if it gets passed in its present form.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-25

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt has given Alexander Lambert’s letter to Secretary of Commerce and Labor Oscar S. Straus. He feels it would be best if Lambert came to Washington, D.C. to see Secretary Straus and discuss the matter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-18

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt has received the medal, diploma, and check for the Nobel Prize. He thanks the committee, and tells them that the money is being used to create a foundation for promoting industrial peace.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-08

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt sends a check to Melville Weston Fuller for the amount of the Nobel Prize and associated paperwork. He has given a few related letters to Oscar S. Straus. When Fuller has a plan, Roosevelt would like to talk it over with him.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-04

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt has sent Dr. Alexander Lambert’s letter to Oscar S. Straus, praising Lambert’s judgement.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt has heard good things about Mr. Bush. He believes that six men will be chosen by the committee of five people, whom he has nominated. He will give Hugh Henry Hanna’s letter to Secretary of Commerce and Labor Oscar S. Straus.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt tells former Mayor Low that the idea he has suggested has already been raised by Secretary of Commerce and Labor Oscar S. Straus and National Civic Federation founder John Mitchell. Roosevelt doubts the possibility of applying the semi-official gift from the Nobel Foundation and applying it to a private enterprise like the Civic Federation. He hopes a plan can be worked out, but notes that neither his name nor Alfred Nobel’s name should be “swallowed up in any private movement.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-20

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Henry Green reminisces about his childhood in Albany, when he saw then Governor Theodore Roosevelt as a “God.” In 1910, Green supported William S. Bennet in his race for re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives. He was disappointed to learn that Roosevelt sided with “pink tea politicians,” opposing Bennet. Green remarks about how much he enjoyed his and Roosevelt’s recent meeting, and that he was too overwhelmed to mention that Andrew D. White has agreed to serve on his committee, and Oscar Straus could soon join as well.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-22

Creator(s)

Green, Henry

Secretary of War Taft updates President Roosevelt regarding the management of the National Parks. Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park S. B. M. Young would prefer rangers to the military, and Taft agrees with him, but Congress is putting the responsibility of park management on the War Department rather than the Department of the Interior. Taft warns that he accidentally engaged in cards on a Sunday, in case the press finds out. While traveling, he saw Secretary of Commerce and Labor Oscar S. Straus, and they discussed both Japanese naturalization and immigration of Russian Jews. Taft briefly lists his upcoming speeches.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-04

Creator(s)

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

Seth Low agrees to President Roosevelt’s arrangements to go over the plan with Secretary of Commerce and Labor Oscar S. Straus and John Mitchell. He was also impressed by a man he met named Thomas G. Bush from Alabama, and recommends him to be a trustee of Roosevelt’s fund.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-24

Creator(s)

Low, Seth, 1850-1916

Seth Low congratulates President Roosevelt on the Nobel Peace Prize and suggests that the National Civic Federation might be useful in the disposition of the award money. Low thinks it preferable to “strengthen what already exists” rather than “build up something entirely new.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-18

Creator(s)

Low, Seth, 1850-1916

This photograph includes the entire cabinet: President Roosevelt, Secretary of State Elihu Root, Secretary of Commerce and Labor Oscar S. Straus, Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield, Secretary of the Navy Victor Howard Metcalf, Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou, Secretary of War William H. Taft, Postmaster General George von Lengerke Meyer, Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson, and Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-10-25

Creator(s)

Detroit free press (Detroit, Mich. : 1846)

President Roosevelt meets with his cabinet in a room filled with snakes: “Harriman interests,” “panic,” “tobacco trust,” “powder trust,” “beef trust,” “railroad trust,” “Standard Oil,” “immunity,” “Japanese war scare,” and “telegrapher’s strike.” The chairs for Secretary of State and Secretary of War are empty.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-27

Creator(s)

Berryman, Clifford Kennedy, 1869-1949

Eleanor Butler Roosevelt at a garden party at the William Bourke Cockrans. From left to right: unidentified man, Anne Louisa Cockran, Mrs. Oscar S. Straus, Roosevelt, William Bourke Cockran. A note written under the picture says Eleanor’s hat was from Paris and of the latest fashion.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1912

Creator(s)

Unknown

Article discusses Italian-Turkish war, arbitration, and Oscar Strauss.

Collection

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site

Creation Date

1911-10-14

Creator(s)

unknown

Theodore Roosevelt writes his sister from the campaign trail. Roosevelt asks her to tell her son, Theodore Douglas Robinson, that he wishes he were with him. Roosevelt mentions that the nomination from Oscar S. Straus strengthened his campaign.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1912-09-15

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Theodore Roosevelt stands on a reviewing stand, holding hat in raised right hand as a large group of capitalists, industrialists, and financiers wearing the tattered clothing of tramps, march past the stand. Some carry placards with such statements as: “Irrigate the Trusts,” “No place to go but the Waldorf,” “We want the earth,” “Free quick lunches,” “Pity the poor banker,” “Dividends or we perish.” At the front of the group, J. P. Morgan carries a wooden bucket labeled “The full water pail.” Caption: “Aggregated wealth largely represented among Parker’s Supporters”–New York Tribune.

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904-09-14