Word: rosenwalds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...independent preparatory school is Gunnery, which has perched in the Berkshires near Washington, Conn. since 1850. Founded by an abolitionist named Frederick William Gunn, Gunnery still warns parents that "luxury, waste, and soft living are contrary to the spirit of the school," although such rich boys as Robert Lessing Rosenwald of Abingdon, Pa. now go there. In its long career Gunnery has had only three headmasters. Last week it was handed over by retiring William Hamilton Gibson to a fourth educator who can well preserve its austere tradition: Rev. Tertius van Dyke, Headmaster Gibson's brother...
...happyland for white-collared U. S. Negroes is a collection of buildings grouped around a grassy campus on the northwest outskirts of Washington, D. C. Howard University has many white friends as well: the Julius Rosenwald Fund and the General Education Board; Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who gave it nearly $5,000,000 in PWA grants for buildings and turned up last October to dedicate its new chemistry building; Eleanor Roosevelt, who has dropped in at Howard faculty meetings. Last week Howard's friends were shocked to hear that its 1,950 blackamoor students were...
Sixteen years ago Sears, Roebuck & Co., one of the two great merchandising organizations built on the agrarian economy of the U. S., undertook a major invasion of the industrialized East. Eastern headquarters were established at Philadelphia and to this new satrapy, Julius Rosenwald, Chicago's great mail order magnate, sent his own son, quiet, hardworking, philanthropic Lessing Julius Rosenwald. The great Julius died, and four years ago Son Lessing became board chairman of the firm. Even then he did not return to Chicago. Once a week or oftener he taxis thither by air to confer with Sears' President...
...year-old Polish Jew named Samuel Reshevsky, who started to play at 5. toured Europe as a chess prodigy at 8, startled U. S. experts at 9 by winning 41 out of 42 simultaneously-played matches. In 1924 he came to the attention of the late Julius Rosenwald, who was so impressed that he spent $11,000 to send Reshevsky through high school and college. Graduated from the University of Chicago in 1933 with only average grades, Reshevsky resumed chess, made his debut in European international play last year by beating onetime World Champion Jose Capablanca to win the masters...
...being succeeded by Alexander Nesbitt Kemp. Security Mutual Life of Binghamton, N. Y. picked Frederick D. Russell as president to succeed David S. Dickinson, who resigned. Carl L. Odell succeeded Gilbert E. Humphreys as president of Hercules Life, Sears, Roebuck's mail order company. Sears's Lessing Rosenwald is still chairman...