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...Although it is no cheaper to subscribe than to buy each issue, and early announcements definitely urged readers not to subscribe, some 4,000 subscriptions were received. Among the subscribers: Julius Rosenwald, Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Truman Handy Newberry. Dr. Julius Klein, Norman Bel Geddes, Admiral Arthur Lee Willard...
Montgomery Ward finally declined to listen to terms of one share of Sears for each two and a half shares of its own stock. When the bigger company was convinced of this its vice chairman, Lessing Rosenwald, said: "We felt that those terms were a very fair proposal. . . ." Sears, Roebuck officials definitely stated that they could not consider a consolidation on any terms less favorable to Sears, Roebuck than the two and a half for one basis. This was one of the rare times that terms had been discussed by officials of either company despite the innumerable outcroppings...
Birthdays. Julius Rosenwald (69); Amos Alonzo Stagg (69) ; Gifford Pinchot (66); Mary Roberts Rinehart (55); Nathalia Crane...
Lessing J. Rosenwald, 40, resigned as vice president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., became chairman of the executive committee, vice chairman of the board. The shift was interpreted as meaning that his father, Julius Rosenwald, plans to become less active in the company. Last week the rumor of a merger between Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward was stronger than it has been for a year...
...letters. Pumper Affleck wrote first, enclosing a check for 35?-his weekly stipend at pumping-as proposed membership fee. U. S. Senator James Couzens demanded to join; for two years he had pumped at the Presbyterian Church of Chatham, Ont. for $5 a year. Third charter member was Julius Rosenwald (now Grand Quint of the Chicago Loft) who shrewdly earned 25? a Sunday for labor at the First Presbyterian Church of Springfield, Ill. (not at the temple attended by his parents). At last year's meeting of the Chicago Loft, Pumper Rosenwald delivered a report on "My First Pair...