Word: rosenberger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After getting along for 92 years with nothing but male veeps, R. H. Macy & Co. last week appointed its first woman vice president. She is Brooklyn-born Beatrice Rosenberg, 52, who joined Macy's as a hat clerk 32 years ago, climbed steadily up to department manager, a merchandise counselor (millinery and footwear) and merchandise administrator. Vice President Rosenberg (married to Harry Kirshbaum, an architect) is now in charge of the millinery and shoe sales staffs, some 400 people. Her motto:"Beat last year's figures...
...That ardent disciple of nonpartisanship, who has made it work for the second most populous state in the Union . . . Governor Earl Warren of California . . . J. L. ROSENBERG Sacramento, Calif...
George Marshall did not wait for President Truman's formal appointment. He announced to the press that Anna Rosenberg, 48, would take the big, pressure-blown, $15,000-a-year job of Assistant Secretary of Defense in charge of manpower and personnel. No woman had ever before held such a job in the manly precincts of the Pentagon. But Anna Rosenberg, said George Marshall, was "one of the country's outstanding experts-I believe the outstanding expert-on the subject of manpower." She succeeds bumbling Paul Griffith, who owed his job to Louis Johnson (both were ex-national...
...Anna Rosenberg is a 5 ft. 3 dynamo and a resolute wearer of outlandishly feminine hats which cover one of the shrewdest heads in public life. A Hungarian-her father made furniture for the Emperor-who was brought to the U.S. at ten, she has never quite disposed of her Budapest accent. She has been alternately charming or browbeating people into accord since her junior year at New York's Wadleigh High School. There, during World War I, she persuaded boys at two neighboring high schools to end their strike over compulsory military drill which lengthened the school...
...basis of priorities, which was copied across the U.S. An ardent supporter of Fiorello La Guardia, and like him, volatile, unpredictable and tireless, she can be coy as Bo-Peep or brassy as Sergeant Quirt. Running her own labor-and public-relations business on the side, Mrs. Rosenberg (whose husband, Julius Rosenberg, is a Manhattan rug dealer) earned up to $60,000 a year for advising such clients as R. H. Macy & Co., I. Miller (shoes) and Nelson Rockefeller...