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Levi Strauss
Levi Strauss Born: February 26, 1829Buttenheim, Germany Died: September 26, 1902San Francisco, CaliforniaFounder, Levi Strauss & Company Levi Strauss's life is one of the great examples of the American immigrant success story. Through hard work, the willingness to take risks, and... Read more |
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Levi Strauss Co
Levi Strauss & Co. 1155 Battery StreetSan Francisco, California 94111U.S.A.(415) 544-6000Fax: (415) 544-1693 Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Levi Strauss Associates Inc. Incorporated: 1890Employees: 37,648Sales: $6.7 billion (1995)SICs: 2325 Men Read more |
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Franz Josef Strauss
Franz Josef Strauss , 1915-88, West German political figure, leader of the Christian Social Union. He became prominent in the Bavarian Christian Social Union (the Bavarian wing of the Christian Democratic Union) after World War II. Elected to the Bundestag in 1949, he became (1956) minister of... Read more |
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waltz
waltz romantic dance in moderate triple time. It evolved from the German Ländler and became popular in the 18th cent. The dance is smooth, graceful, and vital in performance. The waltz in Vicente Martin's opera Una cosa rara, produced in Vienna (1776), is regarded as the first Viennese... Read more |
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Strauss
Strauss , family of Viennese musicians. Johann Strauss, 1804-49, learned to play the violin against his parents' wishes. In 1819 he joined the dance orchestra of Josef Lanner (1801-43), whom he later rivaled. In 1826 Strauss organized his own orchestra. His waltzes won him fame that was extended... Read more |
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Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss 1899-1973, American philosopher, b. Hesse, Germany. Strauss fled the Nazis and in 1938 came to the United States, where he taught at the New School in New York City (1938-48) and the Univ. of Chicago (1949-68). He is known for his often controversial interpretations of political... Read more |
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Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss
Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss , 1896-1974, American financier, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (1953-58), b. Charleston, W.Va. In World War I he served under Herbert Hoover on the Belgian Relief Commission and the Allied Supreme Economic Council. He was a special assistant to Secretary of the... Read more |
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Robert Haas
Robert Haas 1942– Chairman of the board, Levi Strauss & Company Nationality: American. Born: 1942, in San Francisco, California. Education: University of California, Berkeley, BS, 1964; Harvard Graduate School of Business, MBA, 1968. Family: Son of Walter Haas Jr. (chief... Read more |
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David Friedrich Strauss
David Friedrich Strauss , 1808-74, German theologian and philosopher. In Berlin he studied (1831-32) Hegelian philosophy. As tutor at Tübingen he lectured on Hegel, modern philosophy, and Plato. His Das Leben Jesu (2 vol., 1835-36) aroused much interest because it applied the "myth theory" ... Read more |
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Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss , 1864-1949, German composer. Strauss brought to a culmination the development of the 19th-century symphonic poem, and was a leading composer of romantic opera in the early 20th cent. Son of a celebrated horn player, he had extensive musical instruction and began composing as a child... Read more |
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