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Elected. Lessing J. Rosenwald : chair man of the board of directors of Sears. Roebuck & Co. ; to succeed his father, the late Julius Rosenwald...
Died. Julius Rosenwald, 69, philanthropist, board chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; of arteriosclerosis complicated by heart and kidney disease; in Ravinia...
...heart disease after a nervous breakdown; on his 58th birthday; in Manhattan. A philanthropist, giver of $10,000,000 worth of Crane stock to his employes, President Crane with a reputed fortune of $50,000,000 was rated Chicago's second richest man (next to Board Chairman Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck...
That the dark tenth of the U. S. population should no longer be called Negroes, but Browns, is the thesis of a study published last week by President Edwin Rogers Embree of the Julius Rosenwald Fund.* From 1619 when John Smith bought "twenty Negars" and thus introduced slavery to Anglo-Saxon America, until 1808 when the U. S. formally forbade slave importations, the Negroes came from diverse African stocks. From the beginning, the African races in America married among themselves and with Indians, and practically from the beginning acquired white blood. Comments Mr. Embree: "No special odium was attached...
Helping to speed the Browns on their ascent are the Rockefeller, Rosenwald, Carnegie, Peabody, Slater, Jeanes, Phelps-Stokes, du Pont and Duke philanthropic foundations. Each foundation develops some function of the Browns' wellbeing. The Julius Rosenwald Foundation, for example, in co-operation with States and counties has established 5,000 primary schools for colored children, at least one in almost every county of 14 Southern States. Negroes gratefully call Mr. Rosenwald, whose mail order catalogs they used before they could use his textbooks, "Cap'n Julius...