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...arranged by Clay Dean Slinker, director of business education in the high schools, for 275 students of retail selling, business organization, business English, art and journalism. Every high school nominated students for executive positions, at $2 for the day. Winners were drawn by lot. Younkers took 143 students. Sears, Roebuck 25, The Utica (clothing) 23, Montgomery Ward 10, The Globe (department store) 9, Wolf's (ladies') 8, Norman Cassiday (ladies') 6, Kresge's 6, Herman Kucharo (men's) 4, Sprankel's (men's) 4, Carley's (ladies') 4, J. C. Penney...
...publisher of the Chicago Daily News and Rawleigh Warner, vice president of Brothers Beman and Henry Dawes's Pure Oil Co. The organizing committee was said to include President Sewell Lee Avery of both U. S. Gypsum and Montgomery Ward, Owen D. Young, President Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck and President Philip Ream Clarke of Central Republic Bank & Trust Co., stockholders in which will have an opportunity to buy shares in Banker Dawes's new venture...
...Grand American. No one has ever won it more than once. In the huge field?722 last week?high-class shooters have an almost insuperable handicap in firing from as far away as 25 yd., 9 yd. farther than those with the lowest ratings. Last week, Rev. Garrison Roebuck, United Brethren minister of Defiance, Ohio who won last year, finished with a wretched 71. A heavy rain made the visibility so poor that from time to time all firing ceased...
...have been perturbed last week at the price of Commonwealth Edison short-term notes which fall due July 30. Only 97˝ was bid for them, a price which would give the buyer a 27% return to maturity. And he must have noted with regret the passing of the Sears, Roebuck dividend. Commentators saw this omission as the company's opinion that the grain markets will not rally soon. Principal grains last week had lost their recent advances and were slumping to new lows on good weather reports. Cotton held its gains more tenaciously. Oil was firm but the bright spot...
...reflate" trade & finance. On the committee, besides leading bankers, were such potent Chicago industrialists as President Alexander Legge of International Harvester Co.; President David A. Crawford of Pullman Co.; Chairman James Simpson of Marshall Field & Co.; Charles Glore of Field, Glore & Co.; President Robert E. Wood of Sears Roebuck & Co. Chosen as chairman was Sewell Lee Avery, able president of U. S. Gypsum Co. and of Montgomery Ward. "I have no magic in my briefcase and no rabbit in my hat," said Secretary Mills. The first week's experience of the new Manhattan committee suggested that other hats...