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...replied that they would vote for Roosevelt; 60 said they would vote for Willkie, 40 said that they would too, but did not want to proclaim it from the housetops. Among the 60: Benjamin Buttenwieser, member of Kuhn, Loeb; Lessing J. Rosenwald, former chairman of the board, Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Roger W. Straus, co-chairman of the National Conference of Jews and Christians...
...born (May 28, 1940) of all but "advisory"' power. But last week it watched another feather sewn to the full war regalia it may some day don. Franklin Roosevelt appointed a new four-man priorities board. Administrator was Donald Marr Nelson, the Defense Commission's (formerly Sears, Roebuck's) purchasing agent. Chairman was Commissioner Knudsen, its member commissioners Stettinius, Henderson. Purpose of the board was to work out a priorities system. In some industries-notably among the more defenseless customers of copper- priorities were already needed to determine who gets what. And besides, if logjammed suppliers...
...ordered a set of paints from Sears, Roebuck, got herself some old planks, sheets of tin and pieces of threshing canvas to paint on. Then she started to make pictures of the hilly country around Eagle Bridge. Most of her pictures showed scenes and events of farm life: boiling maple sap on the winter snow, rounding up the turkey for Thanksgiving, covered bridges, Model T Fords, bonfires. Her picture frames she took from old mirrors in the attic. Once she attempted an allegory: a picture of an angel saving two children from falling over a cliff. She labeled...
...Sears, Roebuck Heiress Mrs. Marion Rosenwald Stern (represented on PM's board by her man-of-business Nathan Levin who runs the 70-odd Rosenwald family money pools), buyer of PM's No. 1 block of stock, representing a $250,000 investment...
...radio polls, is currently addressing his folksy, gee-whiz comments for Sun Oil Co. five times a week to an estimated audience of 10,000,000. Al though he has turned 48, he is just as relentlessly enthusiastic now as when he began, still rates with the Sears, Roebuck catalogue as an indispensable in the rural areas, where his following is greatest...