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...Committee by week's end, four had replied that they would vote for Roosevelt; 60 said they would vote for Willkie, 40 said that they would too, but did not want to proclaim it from the housetops. Among the 60: Benjamin Buttenwieser, member of Kuhn, Loeb; Lessing J. Rosenwald, former chairman of the board, Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Roger W. Straus, co-chairman of the National Conference of Jews and Christians...
...Sears, Roebuck Heiress Mrs. Marion Rosenwald Stern (represented on PM's board by her man-of-business Nathan Levin who runs the 70-odd Rosenwald family money pools), buyer of PM's No. 1 block of stock, representing a $250,000 investment...
Result is that in spite of a socialite board of directors (including John Hay Whitney, Marshall Field III, Philip K. Wrigley, Lessing Rosenwald), PM has a leftist aroma. Fortnight ago, when a sheet was passed around newspaper offices, accusing various members of his staff by name of being Communists or Communist-sympathizers, Publisher Ingersoll published the charges, invited FBI to investigate...
While all the counterfeit works were loaned anonymously for the exhibit, the master-works were secured by the students on loan from the Boston Public Library, the Fogg Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Peabody Museum, Mr. Duncan Phillips, of Washington, D.C.; Mr. Leseing J. Rosenwald, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Paul J. Sachs, professor of Fine Arts; and several anonymous collectors and many dealers...
Dillard was created by a merger of two impoverished old New Orleans schools, Congregationalist Straight College and Methodist Episcopal New Orleans University. The two church boards, the Julius Rosenwald Fund, the Rockefeller General Education Board and leading New Orleans citizens, including Rosenwald Son-in-Law Edgar B. Stern, pledged $2,000,000 to build the new university, opened it in 1935. It was named for an old Virginia blue blood, Dr. James Hardy Dillard, who for 24 years had devoted himself to improving the South's Negro country schools...