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Straus’s grandfather Isidor was a legendary merchant who started Macy’s on its road to fame, later went down with the Titanic rather than get into a lifeboat while women and children were ...

As the years rolled on, Ellen attempted to return the cherished mink coat to the Straus lineage, but they declined. While ...