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Twenty years ago, Julius Rosenwald got busy with the profits from his Sears Roebuck catalog. Since then, $4,000,000 of his money plus more than $4,000,000 from innumerable Negroes plus $1,000,000 from Southern whites plus $18,000,000 of public funds has built 5,357 Negro schoolhouses in 15 Southern States, thereby doubling the number of schools for U. S. Negro moppets...
Last week, the Rosenwald Fund (reporting on its activities since the death of the creator in January 1932), announced that its school-building work was ended. But, said Reporter-President Edwin Rogers Embree, the cause of Negro education is far from won. Eight Southern States average $44 per year for a white child's education; $12.50 for a Negro's. Rosenwald Fund will henceforth concentrate on improving the quality of the 15,000 Negro teachers in the schools it built. Prime means: scholarships for promising individuals; and to the four centres of higher Negro education-in Washington, Atlanta...
Committee for the Nation. While Dr. Warren was still sticking to his academic last, a group of businessmen got busy to find a remedy for Depression. James H. Rand Jr., head of Remington Rand, Lessing Rosenwald and General Wood of Sears Roebuck, Frank A. Vanderlip, Automan Errett Lobban Cord and many another formed the "Committee for the Nation," became uninvited disciples of Professor Warren, went forth to preach his doctrine to businessmen and politicians. Last week Committeemen for the Nation had almost a free run of the White House office where their frequent visits left their impress upon the presidential...
...ordinary life plan by 20% of the man's income." Lives known to be insured for $1,000,000 or more include those of Motorman Walter P. Chrysler, Scripps-Howard's Roy Wilson Howard, Harvey Samuel Firestone, Cineman Will Rogers. Some jumbos deceased since 1923: Julius Rosenwald, William Wrigley Jr., John Thompson Dorrance...
...still looks for worlds to conquer, has been prominent with Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Sears, Roebuck scion) in promoting the "Committee for the Nation" which last spring was busy advising the U. S. to devalue the dollar...