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...Chicago last week Sears, Roebuck & Co. announced a plan to enter the New York trade area with three $1,000,000 department stores: one in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn, one in Hackensack, N. J., one in-Union City. N. J. The stores are expected to be completed next autumn, will bring Sears, Roebuck's total of retail establishments...
...Chicago department stores doing an annual business of $155,000,000 in a full-page advertisement last week publicly welcomed a competitor to State Street. That the competitor would undersell them was self-evident, for the competitor was none other than Sears, Roebuck & Co., whose famed mail order catalog is indispensable in farm houses from Maine to New Mexico. But far-sighted storekeepers knew that Sears, Roebuck would bring to Chicago's Loop district many a shopper who had never bought there before, hoped thereby to gain more trade than they would lose...
Modest President Robert Elkington Wood of Sears, Roebuck, as usual, did not attend last week's opening, let the credit go to Manager Chauncey T. Ray. Manager Ray started work on State Street at the age of eleven, as cash boy for Charles Gossards' (now Carson Pirie Scott), later went to Marshall Field. He left in 1930 to become an assistant manager of a Sears, Roebuck store. Last week, at 47, he was back on State Street as manager of a store that may become biggest...
...whiskers," became a scrapbookman while in a hospital for two years convalescing from War wounds. He spent his time in reading inspirational essays and verse and pasting up his favorite items. Also he continued an early hobby of memorizing Shakespeare's plays. Seven years ago he persuaded Sears, Roebuck & Co.'s WLS in Chicago to let him broadcast some of the plays, taking all parts himself. The broadcasts were popular and next year he began radio readings from his scrapbooks. That was a far greater success. Listeners everywhere began sending in bits they wanted "Tony" to read, even...
Died. Julius Rosenwald, 69, philanthropist, board chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; of arteriosclerosis complicated by heart and kidney disease; in Ravinia...