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...impossible to believe that you, Mr. Rosenwald [Julius Rosenwald, philanthropist, Chairman of Sears Roebuck] with your record of benefactions to humanity, and you, Mrs. Sherman [Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman, clubwoman, onetime (1924-26) head of General Federation of Women's Clubs] known and trusted by millions of American women, believe that the National Broadcasting Co. is rendering a public service when it permits young men and women to be told . . . that it is 'healthy' to smoke cigarets. It is impossible to believe that you, Dr. Macfarland [Dr. Charles Stedman Macfarland, General Secretary of the Federal Council of the Churches...
...Sears, Roebuck...
Julius Rosenwald, 66, philanthropist and board-chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. (mail order house), sat, hour after hour and day after day last week, in the divorce court of Judge Joseph Sabath in Chicago. An observer, not a divorce-seeker, was Mr. Rosenwald. As to how he would use his observations, he said: "I have nothing definite I can give out now. If you were a mind-reader you would know what the plans...
Round 17. The Sun Life Insurance Co. of Montreal sent proxies for 44,000 shares to Col Stewart. Dartmouth College sent proxies for 2,360 shares to Mr. Rockefeller Jr. Julius Rosenwald, philanthropist and board-chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. came out for Mr. Rockefeller Jr. with the statement: "It was fitting for stockholders in any enterprise to see that the business is managed by officers whom they can trust." But Philanthropist Rosenwald's influence was moral, not financial. He owns no stock in Standard Oil of Indiana...
...equally strong, if less sensational, bull stock was Sears Roebuck, mail-order house larger even than Montgomery Ward. In 1927 Sears Roebuck earned $5.95 per share. It sold on Jan. 16, 1928 at 82⅛, or approximately 14 times earnings. The 1928 earnings were $6.28 per share, but on Nov. 14 Sears Roebuck sold at 197½ (1928 high) ; again almost exactly 31 times 1928 earnings...