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...Moffett's desk was high-piled with such messages as: ''Sacramento reports 1,000 increased employment in the building trades this month over last. Material dealers extremely busy and painters not to be had.''* Companies like Johns-Manville, National Radiator. U. S. Radiator, Sears Roebuck, were all cashing in on the great drive for home renovation...
Last week W. F. Hall Printing Co., which prints catalogs for Sears, Roebuck, Montgomery Ward and other direct-by-mail houses, made Hadar Ortman its president. Robust, apple-cheeked, curly-haired, 36, he will head a company which prints more magazines than any other, at its 20-acre Chicago plant...
Julius Rosenwald 2nd, grandson of Sears, Roebuck's late board chairman, reported to Sears' Seattle branch, ready to begin work as a clerk. Asked about the business, he protested: "Say, I'm just a kid that's starting from the bottom. I'm going to start learning something about it tomorrow. I'd start today but I've got hay fever...
...protect the Dionne quintuplets from "exploiters from American cities who come to Canada to pull off a racket," the Province of Ontario last week appointed four "big strapping fellows" as guardians. Exclaimed Ontario's Attorney-General Arthur Wentworth Roebuck: ''There is no law which would permit us to deal adequately with the American gentlemen attempting to exploit the children. So we must be satisfied with circumventing their scheme. Promoters may take whatever action they please to enforce their contract to exhibit the children in Chicago. But if they get the children out of the hands of these...
...show in person, was a $27-a-month bookkeeper when he started to work with a lounge company in Naperville. He bought the lounge company, built up a furniture corporation which in 1929 did $20,000,000 worth of business. His customers today include such heavy buyers as Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward...