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Their crusade was sincere and dignified, their membership select. Into it came men like Lessing Rosenwald (son of Sears, Roebuck's famed president, Julius), intimate with Wood and associated with him at Sears; wealthy, influential, socially prominent Edward Ryerson Jr. (steel); wealthy, bluff Sterling Morton (salt). Eager to speak for its cause was such an impeccably American woman as Kathleen Norris, eminently successful writer of he-she stories for women's magazines, a sincere and emotional pacifist who hates war. For the most part, members confined themselves chiefly to writing to the President, until last January when...
Chosen as head of the bureau-on rec ommendation of Donald Nelson,* head of the Supply Priorities & Allocations Board -was Nelson's old private-industry boss: ex-Board Chairman Lessing Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck & Co. Shy, esthetic Lessing Rosenwald retired in 1939, since has administered his philanthropies (including the noted Rosenwald Fund started by his father) and pursued his hobby of collecting etchings. Last summer he went to Washington as head of OPM's commodity section on silk. He was once a member of the America First Committee and an outspoken Willkie supporter in the last campaign...
Although Robert McConnell, head of OPM's old conservation section, was passed over for the top job, he was by no means purged. He will continue as head of a new Engineers' Defense Board which will advise Rosenwald. Its first job: to knock unnecessary requirements out of U.S. building codes, thus save on materials going into construction...
...Office of Education, which has arranged many a show designed to spread democratic enlightenment (among them: Let Freedom Ring, Answer Me This, The World is Yours), began to broadcast over NBC's Red network a new series called Freedom's People. Financed by grants from the Rosenwald Fund and the Southern Edu cation Foundation, its object is to improve the Negro's status by dwelling on his contribution to U.S. civilization...
...board voted 10-to-5 to fire not only Dean Cocking but "Furriner" (Mississippi-born) Marvin S. Pittman, president of Georgia State Teachers College and Georgia-born J. Curtis Dixon, vice chancellor of the State University system. Said Talmadge: "Dixon was just as much tied up with the Rosenwald Fund as Cocking was." Next day, with pixie logic, Talmadge chose as Cocking's successor a furriner from Maryland, Dr. Edwin Pusey, who is also a trustee of a Negro school in Georgia (Fort Valley) supported by Rosenwald Funds...