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...heads of governments who might actually do something. But Boston's conference on distribution had for its rank-&-file attendants some 750 business men actively engaged in distribution, had such headline speakers as President Percy Straus of R. H. Macy & Co., General R. E. Wood, president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., President Oswald Knauth of Associated Dry Goods Corp., Cosmetician Elizabeth Arden, Professor Paul H. Nystrom of Columbia University, President Karl T. Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and not least of all, Secretary of State Cordell Hull. To garnish this group as chairman of the first...
...surplus profits tax. Contented stockholders would buy more stock, return to their company as much cash or more than they received in dividends. One of the first big companies to go the whole hog on this method of making everybody but the Collector of Internal Revenue happy was Sears, Roebuck & Co., which paid out approximately all it earned to its 34,500 stockholders, then proceeded to sell them $43,000,000 worth of new stock (TIME, Nov. 9). Since then the necessity to replenish working capital funds depleted by year-end dividends has been a big factor in starting...
...White and the Post published a story saying, "although Mr. White will not take responsibility of selecting Sheik Imam's wife, he will be glad to make contact with the Arabian for those interested. Mr. White can be reached by telephone at 9-1817 or by mail at Roebuck Springs...
...point of grotesqueness." Managing Director Roy A. Cheney of the Underwear Institute said the Board members ought to be paid $20,000 a year, given lifetime jobs, if Congress was determined to give any men such powers. He filed 28 typed pages of suggested changes in the bill. Sears, Roebuck's President Robert E. Wood felt that instead of permitting the Board at its option to employ advisers in fixing wages & hours for a particular industry, they should be compelled to appoint advisory wage committees...
...been eliminated entirely, down payments have been sharply reduced. To make it easier to go into debt, payments have been lowered by extending the term from ten or twelve months to two or three years, sometimes as much as five years. Installment credit has also been eased quantitatively. Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward now sell mail-order merchandise for deferred payment in amounts...