Word: rosenwalds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Among them the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Science & Industry ("Rosenwald Industrial Museum"), Adler Planetarium and Astronomical Museum, Washington's Smithsonian Institution...
...Chicago's most popular scientific institutions were founded by philanthropic potentates of Sears, Roebuck & Co. While visiting Munich in 1920, the late Julius Rosenwald was stirred by his son William's extraordinary interest in the Deutsches
Museum, which is full of scientific and industrial exhibits in operation and which Bavarian schoolchildren are required by law to visit once a year. In 1926 Julius Rosenwald gave $3,000,000 to Chicago for the as yet incompleted Rosenwald Museum of Science & Industry, patterned after the Deutsches...
...professor of astronomy at Northwestern, spent every clear night at the telescope, slept from 6 a.m. to 11, took a long swim in Lake Michigan before going to afternoon classes. As an infantry officer he saw action in the Spanish and World Wars. Last week the trustees of the Rosenwald Museum asked the Planetarium's Dr. Fox to double his duties and direct the Museum as well. He accepted the new post, vacant since Otto Theo Kreusser resigned last year...
...Sears' precise General Wood and Chairman Lessing Julius Rosenwald the social responsibilities of a great mercantile institution must be practiced as well as preached. Two-thirds of General Wood's letter to stockholders was devoted to outlining responsibilities: 1) to the public; 2) to employes (48,200); 3) to stockholders (42,700); 4) to Sears' sources of supplies (6,461 manufacturers). After pointing with pride to the company's policy of keeping wages ahead of advancing living costs and providing vacations with pay, General Wood made the first public accounting of Sears' Employes' Savings...