Word: rosenwalds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sears, Roebuck's entrance into home-building was first thought of about 18 years ago by Chairman Julius Rosenwald. In charge of the department at present is Harvey Louis Harris, 36, whose father was one of the Harris Bros, whose firm demolished the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition (1892) and St. Louis Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904) buildings. Under the trade-mark of Honor Bilt homes, Sears, Roebuck's activity in this field is growing every year...
Negro Apartments. Last year Julius Rosenwald built the $2,700,000 Michigan Boulevard Apartments in Chicago, to be rented at cost to Negroes. The building has 425 apartments (rent: $16 per month per room), nursery schools, garden courts, recreation rooms. Last week directors met, announced the first year of operation will give Mr. Rosenwald 6% on his money. He had expected a loss...
...tycoons and old, Harvard and non-Harvard. Besides Founder-members George Fisher Baker and William Ziegler Jr., some of the old established Tycoon-Associates are: Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, John Pierpont Morgan, Adolph S. Ochs, Otto Hermann Kahn, Andrew William Mellon, Owen D. Young, Martin John Insull, Julius Rosenwald. The farflung scope of the new endowment was reflected in such names as H. Gordon Selfridge of London, James Drummond Dole of Honolulu, Hubert Fleishhacker of California. Samuel H. Halle and Oris Paxton Van Sweringen of Cleveland, Richard Pickering Joy of Detroit...
...small island in Lake Michigan, accessible to Chicago's Grant Park by a causeway, gathered last week Julius Rosenwald, Edith Rockefeller McCormick, Rufus Dawes, Max Adler and many Chicago bigwig. In a squatty rainbow granite building which looked much like a giant derby hat resting on a pedestal, they sat down, craned their necks to watch the ceiling...
...Kuno Francke Professorship was founded in the fall of 1929 by a group of ten donors, among whom are: Juling Rosenwald, Henry Goldman '76, G. F. Warburg '20, C. J. Liebman '98. They dore Baetenhaussen, Frederick A. O. Schwarg, and Henry Schwarg...