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...John D. Hertz (see BUSINESS) make them less available. No such considerations, however, would arise in connection with Thomas E. Wilson, packing house (Wilson & Co.) president, or Thomas E. Donnelley, "biggest" printer. Ideal from the standpoint of public spirit would be Julius Rosenwald, chairman of the board of Sears Roebuck, famed philanthropist (Chicago Industrial Museum, Jewish colonization in Russia, Negro schools and Negro Y. M. C. A.), mentioned as possible Hoover Secretary of Commerce...
...selling movement produced sharp declines in several of the favorite dull issues. The advance of call money from 8 to 10%, and the anticipation of large increases in loans to brokers also helped unsettle the market. Radio Corp. of America dropped more than 12 points, Montgomery Ward, Sears Roebuck, Wright Aero, Victor Talking Machine, Packard Motor and many another stock declined from 5 to 15 points. Other slumping stocks also began to climb back, the market finally re-asserting its prevailing bullish trend. Observers pointed out that there was no real relation between the Marconi crash and the weakening...
...first market profits. Back in 1904 he bought some 1,500 shares of Soo Line stock at from 54 to 60, sold at 160, made what he would now consider the trifling profit of $150,000. Since beginning his eastern operations, U. S. Steel, International Harvester,.Radio Corp., Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward have been among his favorite stocks. He is believed to have bought 100,000 shares of Montgomery Ward when it was selling at 75. Last week the Montgomery Ward quotation reached 438½, which would give Mr. Cutten a paper profit of about...
Here, in the medical care of the man of moderate means, lies a field for far-sighted philanthropists. The field was entered, last week, by one of the most farsighted, Chicago's famed Julius Rosenwald, of Sears, Roebuck. Hereafter, part of the Julius Rosenwald fund will be devoted to the physical welfare of the middle class, largely through the establishment of pay clinics. The work will be under the administration of Dr. Michael M. Davis, able Manhattan clinical expert, late of the Rockefeller Foundation...
...education, alas, so much is expected that the distracted modern university publishes a catalogue quite as alluring as Sears Roebuck's. Everett Dean Martin deplores an educational system which, pandering to a materialistic age, offers equal "credit" for a course in Aristotle's Ethics and another in High Power Salesmanship. But the fault lies not so much with the age as with the perennial lack of a consistent philosophy of education...