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Mail Order Insurance. Exciting to the insurance trade was news last week that 13 officials of Sears. Roebuck & Co. had acted as incorporators of a new insurance company. Called All-State Insurance Co., the firm will write accident, health, burglary and theft insurance as well as com- plete automobile coverage. Carl L. Odell, Chicago insurance broker, is reported to be the chief sponsor of the new company. He said last week that, first of all, automobile insurance will be solicited from Sears, Roebuck employes. But no imagination was required to see Sears, Roebuck adding insurance to its big mail-order...
Engaged, Sarah Stires Wood, debutante daughter of President Robert Elkington Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; and James Roland Addington, Chicago socialite; in Chicago...
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...Union League Club the trustees of the Mount Rushmore Memorial-among them, President Fred Wesley Sargent of Chicago & Northwestern Railway, Board Chairman Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck & Co., onetime Governor Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois- met to choose a substitute historian, adjourned for a year without being able to do so. They did adopt a budget of $70,000 for 1931, promised newsgatherers that by next November the figures of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would be complete as far down as the waistcoats, that men would be at work on Abraham Lincoln...
...inquisitive Sears, Roebuck statistical department has traced back postmark dates, discovered more Honor Bilt homes are ordered on sunny days than gloomy. Typical names of stock homes are: Berwyn, Columbine, Fairy Homewood, Jewell, Puritan, Solace, Sunlight...