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...butcher who handled a bull-fiddle as familiarly as if it were one of the big carcasses hanging in his refrigerator, a Sears, Roebuck accountant who plays the viola, a postman who is also a flutist, and 100 other double-lived Chicago businessmen hurried from their workaday jobs early one night last week, dressed themselves in freshly-pressed business suits and set out for Orchestra Hall to demonstrate how well a band of earnest, carefully-rehearsed amateurs could play...
...home in Abington, Pa. Lessing Julius Rosenwaldt board chairman of Sears. Roebuck & Co., answered the telephone. The voice he heard was that of a man who had sent him three letters demanding $100,000 on pain of "cruel, ruthless and vicious death" for him. his wife and five children. On another telephone Mr. Rosenwald's family telephoned police who traced the call, then raced to the store from which the voice came. Mr. Rosenwald went on talking. Said he afterwards: "First we talked about the money and tried to effect a compromise, and you know that always takes time...
...there was one more thing he was to do for her. The old commercial paper house of Goldman, Sachs had grown wealthy and mighty during 30 years, floating the securities of companies that became great-Sears, Roebuck, General Cigar, Studebaker, Cluett Peabody, Woolworth, Endicott Johnson, Postum, Continental Can, May Department Stores, Pillsbury Flour, National Dairy Products, Goodrich Rubber, Lambert Pharmacal, Gimbel Brothers, Warner Brothers. Goldman Sachs had a bright partner named Waddill Catchings, Tennessee-born Harvard graduate who had been by successive and increasing turns lawyer, steelman and J. P. Morgan assistant in purchasing supplies for the Allies during...
...when Sears, Roebuck was in difficulties Julius Rosenwald made that company a gift of 50,000 shares of its own stock then worth about $60 a share. The gift was conditioned by an option to repurchase at $100 a share. Later he exercised the option when the stock was selling at $235, made...
...dollar by reducing its gold content in accordance with commodity indices. The Vanderlip proposals were signed by: President James Henry Rand Jr. of Remington-Rand Co., Chairman John Henry Hammond of Bangor & Aroostook R. R. Co., President Robert E. Wood and Chairman Lessing Julius Rosenwald of Sears. Roebuck & Co., Vincent Bendix, Samuel S. Fels (naptha), Philip K-Wrigley (gum); Motormaker Howard Earle Coffin, Motormaker Errett Lobban Cord, President Edward Asbury O'Neil III of American Farm Bureau Federation, Master Louis John Taber of the National Grange, Organ-maker Farny R. Wurlitzer, President William Joseph Me-Aneeny of Hudson Motor...