Word: rosenwalds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest of the $3,028,723 which the Board funneled out in the fiscal year 1933-34, the biggest part went, as usual, to the South. Like the Rosenwald Fund, the General Education Board long ago made Southern education its special ward. In 32 years it has granted $57,418,075 for thi education of Southern whites, $32,331,203 for the education of Southern Negroes. But, like the Rosenwald Fund which year ago closed its program of building Negro schoolhouses (TIME, Dec. 11, 1933), the General Education Board is withdrawing from some of its early work in Southern schools...
President Edwin Rogers Embree of the Julius Rosenwald Fund has never left anyone in doubt of his low esteem for Southern educational standards. But President Embree is an exceedingly genial man and last spring when he passed through Baton Rouge he allowed newshawks to quote him as saying that Louisiana State University had "every right to come to be included in the first twelve or 15 universities" of the U. S. Month ago James Monroe Smith, president of L. S. U., quoted Mr. Embree as predicting the imminent inclusion of his institution among the first dozen U. S. universities. When...
Noble Sissle has been twice bankrupt, many times successful. During one of his flush periods, he met Alfred Stern, son-in-law of the late Julius Rosenwald. Last week the Rosenwald Fund helped out Sissle's pageant to the tune of $3,000. Sissle wrote the book for the show, gathered around him such Negro musicians as N. Clark Smith, son of an African tribesman and an authority on African music, William Vodery, who arranged most of Ziegfeld's Show Boat music. Will Marion Cook ("Ghost Ship"), Harry Lawrence Freeman ("Voodoo"), Harry T. Burleigh ("Deep River" ). J. Rosamund Johnson ("Lazy...
...Julius Rosenwald 2nd, grandson of Sears, Roebuck's late board chairman, reported to Sears' Seattle branch, ready to begin work as a clerk. Asked about the business, he protested: "Say, I'm just a kid that's starting from the bottom. I'm going to start learning something about it tomorrow. I'd start today but I've got hay fever...
...late John's widow ex-Congresswoman Ruth. There were a huge Christmas tree and wreaths from the family's greenhouse adjoining their Long Island estate. Philadelphia police arrested a milkman named William Schultze who on threat of bodily harm had tried to extort $30,000 from Lessing Rosenwald (Sears Roebuck) to "go into the pasteurization business...