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Oscar S. Straus. Under Four Administrations, from Cleveland to Taft
Under Four Administrations, from Cleveland to Taft
Table of Contents
PREFACE
ILLUSTRATIONS
Under Four Administrations
CHAPTER I
ANCESTRY AND EARLY YEARS
CHAPTER II
LAW, BUSINESS, AND LETTERS
CHAPTER III
ENTERING DIPLOMACY
CHAPTER IV
FIRST TURKISH MISSION
CHAPTER V
HARRISON, CLEVELAND, AND McKINLEY
CHAPTER VI
MY SECOND MISSION TO TURKEY
CHAPTER VII
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
CHAPTER VIII
INDUSTRIAL DIPLOMACY
CHAPTER IX
IN THE CABINET
CHAPTER X
THE TAFT CAMPAIGN OF 1908
CHAPTER XI
MY THIRD MISSION TO TURKEY
CHAPTER XII
THE PROGRESSIVES
CHAPTER XIII
THREATENING CLOUDS OF WAR
CHAPTER XIV
PERSONAL VIGNETTES
CHAPTER XV
THE WORLD WAR
CHAPTER XVI
PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE
INDEX
Throughout the index, S. stands for the author
FOOTNOTES:
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Oscar S. Straus
Recollections of Oscar S. Straus
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During the second year of the war my father's partner was discharged from his regiment for physical disability. My father, always insistent upon the best possible education for us all, therefore urged my brother Isidor to continue his studies. Most of the high schools and colleges, however, had been suspended because the teachers, as well as many of the senior scholars, had joined the army. On the other hand, the war had fired the whole South with the military spirit, and as was natural for a young man barely seventeen, my brother chose to attend the Georgia Military Academy at Marietta, which was running full blast. Earlier in the war, when the Fourth Georgia Regiment, taking practically all the able-bodied men of the town, had left for the front, the boys of Talbotton organized a company of which Isidor was elected first lieutenant. They had offered their services to the governor of the State, but he replied that there were not enough arms to equip all the men, so that equipping boys was out of the question. All these incidents had influenced my brother in his choice, and he left quite enthusiastically for the Georgia Military Academy to take his entrance examinations. When he returned, however, his mood was much different. Upon his arrival at Marietta he had about an hour's waiting before he could see the proper person. Some acquaintances whom he met on the campus invited him to visit their living quarters meanwhile. As he entered one of the rooms the door stood ajar. Without noticing this he gave the door a push, resulting in his being drenched to the skin by a bucket of water that had been balanced over the door and held there by the position of the door when ajar. He had to return to the hotel to change his entire apparel. He had not heard of hazing before, and the incident disgusted him so that he never returned to the academy. He embarked upon his career as a merchant the very next morning.
In 1863 our family moved to Columbus, Georgia. It was a much larger place than Talbotton, having a population of about twelve thousand, offered more opportunities, and, too, my brother Isidor had already found employment there. With its broad main street and brick residences it looked like a great city to me.
