Word: housers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time is not ripe for a tax cut, said the council's antirecession committee, headed by Theodore V. Houser, chairman of Sears, Roebuck; but a cut may be needed if the economy continues to decline. In that case, the group favored an across-the-board slash in personal income tax rates; it did not go on record about corporate or excise taxes...
When it came to other cures, Houser's antirecession committee came out for expansion of Government spending already under way and product improvement and price reductions by business, suggested that President Eisenhower use his influence to get a one-year moratorium on price and wage hikes. But the idea of a price-wage freeze got little support from the meeting's free enterprisers, who had no enthusiasm for urging the President to take such a direct hand in the wage and price process, even on a voluntary basis...
...Fowler B. McConnell, 63. president since 1946 of Sears, Roebuck & Co., the world's No. 1 general store, was named chairman of the board to succeed Theodore V. Houser, 65, who announced his retirement, even though Sears would not require his retirement until age 70. (Said Houser: "I am inaugurating what I hope will become a settled practice for Sears.") McConnell is a University of Chicago graduate who joined Sears as a stock boy in 1916, returned from serving as an infantry captain in France during World War I to become assistant shoe buyer, worked his way through both...
...Theodore Houser, chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. LL.D...
...materialistic philosophy. On the other hand, argue thoughtful businessmen, the most hopeful achievement of the U.S. economy has been to free men and women from soul-destroying drudgery and want, raise educational levels, expand leisure time for the enrichment of self and society. Says Sears, Roebuck Chairman Theodore V. Houser: "As we have prospered and grown in an economic sense, we have also grown in the direction of achieving the goals the great religious and moral leaders have long envisaged for the great masses of people...