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...Julius Rosenwald, Chicago philanthropist, financier (Sears, Roebuck & Co.), newlywed (to Mrs. Adelaide Rau Goodkind, his eldest son's mother-in-law), let it be known last week that he will award a prize of $10,000 to the person who best explains how "Judaism can, without impairing its integrity, best adjust itself to and influence modern life." Those who wish to compete must send their theories in the form of an essay (between 15,000 and 100,000 words) to the Julius Rosenwald Essay Contest, No. 71 W. 47th St., New York City. Included must be an outline...
Married. Julius Rosenwald, 67, Chicago merchant (Sears, Roebuck & Co.) and charitarian; and Mrs. Adelaide Rau Goodkind, 60, of St. Paul, his eldest son's mother-in-law; at his son's home, in Abington Township, Pa. His first wife died last May; Mrs. Rosenwald's first husband died eleven years ago. Rich in her own right, Mrs. Rosenwald received $1,000,000 dowry from her new husband...
Famed as leader of "calendar reform" is George Eastman. Last week to his side came Julius Rosenwald's Sears, Roebuck & Co. which announced it will operate next year on a 13-month schedule. To its customers, the introduction of some new month such as "Sol" will mean nothing, but 40,000 employes will have to consult their company's new calendar to learn when payday falls...
Actor Eddie (Whoopee) Cantor confessed that when he had heard of Mr. Rosenwald's offer to protect his employes' accounts, he had wired for a job as office boy. The confession was in Caught Short, humorous story of his market troubles...
Respectfully conscious, too, are Chicagoans that it is a civic honor to be on the university's board of trustees, now 29 strong. Besides such generous, longtime trustees as Julius Rosenwald, Martin Antoine Ryerson and Chairman Swift, who all live within a few blocks of the campus, and such illustrious out-of-towners as Charles Evans Hughes of Manhattan, George Otis Smith of the U. S. Geological Survey in Washington and Steelman Cyrus Stephen Eaton of Cleveland (elected last week), the board includes new-risen leaders of business and finance like President Sewell Lee Avery of U. S. Gypsum...