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...still looks for worlds to conquer, has been prominent with Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Sears, Roebuck scion) in promoting the "Committee for the Nation" which last spring was busy advising the U. S. to devalue the dollar...
Even before the partnership blanks were distributed many a potent company had wired the President support of his program. Among the first were American Tobacco, Sears. Roebuck, Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea, Florsheim Shoe. But it was the small independent employer not in the habit of telegraphing the White House who would make or break the campaign. Some doubtless would sign agreements and then secretly violate them. For such cheating some N. R. A. advisers thought they could be penalized under the National Recovery Act. Declared General Johnson: "We'll administer this thing through the squawks. When I hear...
Howard Scott the Technocrat was going to make a speech, sped the news. Present would be President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin, General William Irving Westervelt of Sears, Roebuck, old Clarence Darrow, Economist Stuart Chase. Two collateral bodies, the All America Technological Society and the National Technological Congress, were joining with the Continental Convention on Technocracy. It looked as though another flight into the upper air of serious attention might be in store for the limp technocratic skyrocket which last winter burst in a dazzling festoon of headlines and sputtered out in the back pages of hinterland newspapers...
...workers. Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., largest cotton textile manufacturer, announced a 15% raise at Manchester, N. H. Other textile mills at Dallas, Gadsden, Ala., Lawrence, Mass., Rockville, Conn, swung into line. Canning factories in Florida, a Philadelphia handbag maker, a Suffolk, Va., candy company, upped pay. Sears, Roebuck rescinded a 10% salary cut order...
...describes Cambridge as "a town, about three miles west of Boston; remarkable for a university consisting of three colleges." Since 1870 when 75 Americans contributed, of whom 21 were Harvard men, the influence of this continent has increased so that now the Encyclopedia business is owned by Sears Roebuck and Company, although the offices of the editor-in-chief are still in London. F. H. Hopper '83 is the American editor...