Word: rosenwalds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Long then began his New Orleans campaign for the Governorship with the reassuring statement that his "hands were clean." But at this point the Federal Government showed interest in why the tax-racket hearings had been stopped. One of Attorney General Frank Murphy's "smart boys," Harold Rosenwald, announced that the Federal Grand Jury would immediately start hearings. Earl Kemp Long kept mum. But he and all Louisiana were aware that only Earl's boss, Mayor Robert S. Maestri of New Orleans, still remained untouched by the tidal wave that in four months has washed up nearly...
Though Sears will be without a Rosenwald at its head for the first time in 39 years, it will have one on its board. Julius Rosenwald 2nd will be one of three new directors to attend the General's first meeting, which he may begin (as he does his meals and conferences) by barking out: "Let's charge...
Last week, not General Wood, but wan, diffident Board Chairman Lessing Julius Rosenwald resigned. At 47 he retired to his philanthropies and etchings. Sears' directors promptly upped General Wood to the chairmanship, a post to which the retirement rule does not apply...
...Nelson was willing enough until Board Chairman Lessing Rosenwald told him that, if he took it, he would never become Sears, Roebuck's president...
Last week Kentucky-reared Edwin Rogers Embree, president of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, went to University of Georgia to make a commencement speech on "How to Tell a College Graduate from the Birds and Fishes." Mr. Embree recalled that when he was a boy the South had its own formula for the ideal man: a scholar, a gentleman and a judge of good whiskey. This triple ideal, said he, is still an admirable goal for education. Solomon, he reminded Georgia's graduates, so pleased the Lord when he chose the gift of wisdom that he received riches also...