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...when she graduated from high school, she got a job in the Hackensack office of Sears, Roebuck & Co., and for eight hours a day, at least, put her mind on card files and customers' complaints. That was where James Steward first saw her. He was the advertising manager, a graduate of Alabama University, 22, quiet and reserved. Jessie's brown eyes stopped him in his tracks...
...like a list of Dun & Bradstreet's AA ratings. Some of them: John Hay ("Jock") Whitney; Marshall Field III; Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.'s George Huntington Hartford II; Chewing Gum's Philip Knight Wrigley; Marion Rosenwald Stern and her brother, Lessing Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Lawyer Garrard Bigelow Winston, Under Secretary of the Treasury in Calvin Coolidge's Administration; Producer Dwight Deere Wiman; Columnist Dorothy Thompson...
JULIUS ROSENWALD-M. R. Werner-Harper ($3.50). Able Biographer Werner (Barnum, Bryan} here writes an "authorized" but exceedingly honest monument to the head of Sears, Roebuck. Rosenwald carefully gave away some $63,000,000; "he did not give it away in the form of high wages." As philanthropist and multimillionaire, he had delusions neither of sanctimony nor of grandeur, was one of the most modest of U. S. rich...
...running Washington. Chairman of the Board was Edward R. Stettinius Jr.-also chairman of U. S. Steel. Serving with him were no Laborites, no Little Businessmen, no Janizaries. Instead, there were such Big Businessmen as A. T. & T.'s Walter Gifford, General Motors' John Lee Pratt, Sears, Roebuck's General Robert E. Wood, Manhattan Banker John Milton Hancock. Here, to the shaken Janizariat, was sinister evidence that Franklin Roosevelt, in advance of war, had turned elsewhere for counsel. When Louis Johnson announced that Mr. Stettinius as chairman of W. R. B. would wield vast administrative powers...
...this kind of calculation: the very lowest estimate of September's gift to U. S. warehouses runs at something like $1,000,000,000 of unconsumed production. Meanwhile, standard domestic consumption indices (like department store sales) are doing no booming at all. Even Montgomery Ward and Sears, Roebuck have suddenly lost their 1938-39 oomph. Only a real export boom seemed likely to save the U. S. from some pretty drastic inventory trouble...