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Last week Sears, Roebuck & Co. bought a seat on the New York Commodity Exchange. The No. 1 U. S. mail order house had no intention of speculating in rubber, silk, copper, hides, tin, lead, zinc, gasoline or crude oil. Indeed, the prime reason for buying the seat was to make it easier not to speculate in such commodities. According to Sears's Robert E. Wood, the seat was acquired to facilitate hedging operations...
Having perused the 928-page "Golden Jubilee" Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog lately mailed to 6,500,000 customers, Printers' Ink last week marked three lessons for the average advertiser...
Evidently sick at heart and discouraged at the unwillingness of the Great Powers to do anything about the unspeakable abuses he has encountered in Germany, U. S. Citizen McDonald cataloged them in Sears Roebuck fashion and resigned. Excoriating the German Government of today for ''crushing" not only Jews but also Protestants, Catholics and whomever else is not quick to toe the Hitler-Goring-Goeb- bels-Streicher-Rosenberg line, Mr. Mc-Donald bitterly concludes that in Germany what now passes for "law" is merely the "whim" of German bigwigs defying world public opinion beneath the swastika...
...water Kent; W. A. Sheaffer Pen's W. A. Sheaffer; Kohler Co.'s Walter J. Kohler; Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden; Adman Bruce Barton; Camelman S. Clay Williams; Kodakman William G. Stuber; Soapman Richard R. Deupree: Woolman Lionel J. Noah; President Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; President Ray Wantz of Rockford (Ill.) Fibre Container Co. About the only notable business figures absent were Brooklyn's poultry-dealing Brothers Schechter, who upset NRA, and that embattled Manhattan jeweler, Norman C. Norman, who carried his "Gold Clause" case to the Supreme Court...
...Brothers Mayer and Emanuel Lehman, emigrating from Germany, started a cotton commission business in Montgomery, Ala. The Civil War ruined the cotton business; in 1867 the brothers moved to New York. They helped form the Cotton Exchange, floated bonds for traction and ferry companies, backed early issues of Sears, Roebuck and Woolworth preferred. Mayer died in 1897, Emanuel in 1912. The present partnership includes four Lehmans, five non-Lehmans. Philip Lehman, 74, son of Emanuel, is patriarch and senior partner, presides at meetings in the partners' room on the third floor of Lehman Bros, eleven-story building...