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...addition to his job as the Sanitary District's chief engineer, was appointed to the South Park Board, soon became its president. Under him Grant Park and the outer highway system were developed, the Stadium completed, the old Fine Arts building in Jackson Park restored for the Rosenwald Museum of Science & Industry. If George Brennan had lived, that shrewd old Democratic boss might well have run his good friend Kelly for an important municipal job. As it was, Engineer Kelly lived well, played golf, enjoyed his friends, kept out of the limelight until- May 30, 1930 was a black...
...Chrysler, Clarence L. Dillon, Julius Forstmann, William Fox, Henry Goldman, W. A. Harriman, Harris Forbes & Co., Henry Heide, George D. Horst, Henry Janssen, Robert Lehman, Nicholas M. Schenck, W. J. (or I; the German capitals are alike) Norton, Gustav Oberlaender, James R. Perkins, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Julius Rosenwald, Samuel Sachs, Mortimer L. Schiff, Henry Schniewind Jr., Paul C. Schnitzler. Richard Schuster, W. B. Scott, James Speyer, Charles P. Taft, Ferdinand Thun, Elisha Walker, Paul M. Warburg, Felix M. Warburg, H. M. Warner, William H. Woodin, Adolph Zukor...
...Lessing Julius Rosenwaldt board chairman of Sears. Roebuck & Co., answered the telephone. The voice he heard was that of a man who had sent him three letters demanding $100,000 on pain of "cruel, ruthless and vicious death" for him. his wife and five children. On another telephone Mr. Rosenwald's family telephoned police who traced the call, then raced to the store from which the voice came. Mr. Rosenwald went on talking. Said he afterwards: "First we talked about the money and tried to effect a compromise, and you know that always takes time in any transaction. . . . Then...
...when Sears, Roebuck was in difficulties Julius Rosenwald made that company a gift of 50,000 shares of its own stock then worth about $60 a share. The gift was conditioned by an option to repurchase at $100 a share. Later he exercised the option when the stock was selling at $235, made...
...banking; 4) "devaluation" of the dollar by reducing its gold content in accordance with commodity indices. The Vanderlip proposals were signed by: President James Henry Rand Jr. of Remington-Rand Co., Chairman John Henry Hammond of Bangor & Aroostook R. R. Co., President Robert E. Wood and Chairman Lessing Julius Rosenwald of Sears. Roebuck & Co., Vincent Bendix, Samuel S. Fels (naptha), Philip K-Wrigley (gum); Motormaker Howard Earle Coffin, Motormaker Errett Lobban Cord, President Edward Asbury O'Neil III of American Farm Bureau Federation, Master Louis John Taber of the National Grange, Organ-maker Farny R. Wurlitzer, President William Joseph...