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...Government about $1,300,000 in postage. Although they consist entirely of advertising, they provide abundant fireside entertainment for 14,000,000 people. From Chicago fanwise over the world last week began to spread the autumn and winter editions of the mail order catalogs of Sears, Roebuck and of Montgomery Ward...
...Pacific Mutual President George Ira Cochran took the chairmanship, being succeeded by Alexander Nesbitt Kemp. Security Mutual Life of Binghamton, N. Y. picked Frederick D. Russell as president to succeed David S. Dickinson, who resigned. Carl L. Odell succeeded Gilbert E. Humphreys as president of Hercules Life, Sears, Roebuck's mail order company. Sears's Lessing Rosenwald is still chairman...
Divorced. William Rosenwald, son of Chicago's late great Merchant Julius Rosenwald (Sears, Roebuck & Co.); by Mrs. Renee Scharf Rosenwald, daughter of Viennese Painter Victor Scharf; in Reno, Nev. Grounds: cruelty...
...shell he was amused to see a shiny new arrow floating downstream followed by another, equally new and every bit as shiny. After really going to town on the problem he learned that they were two of three purchased, together with a "Robin Hood" standard brand bow, from Sears, Roebuck. The two in the river were the results of bad marksmanship. The one in the Lowell House tower was the result of annoyance at a noisy robin. If you want to know more, you'll have to ask Peter White. He was there...
...arrived in Washington last week just in time to hear another piece of news sweet to the ears. After more than two years of hearings in various cities of the land, the Federal Trade Commission ordered Goodyear Tire & Rubber to cease and desist from granting special favors to Sears, Roebuck & Co. in return for the privilege of making the tires that Sears sells under its own brand names. This mail-order business has often accounted for 10% of Goodyear's total sales...