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...impossible to believe that you, Mr. Rosenwald [Julius Rosenwald, philanthropist, Chairman of Sears Roebuck] with your record of benefactions to humanity, and you, Mrs. Sherman [Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman, clubwoman, onetime (1924-26) head of General Federation of Women's Clubs] known and trusted by millions of American women, believe that the National Broadcasting Co. is rendering a public service when it permits young men and women to be told . . . that it is 'healthy' to smoke cigarets. It is impossible to believe that you, Dr. Macfarland [Dr. Charles Stedman Macfarland, General Secretary of the Federal Council of the Churches...
...libraries are stacked more than 1,150,000 books. Studying financial reports, President Hutchins will notice that during its last fiscal year, University of Chicago's assets were $77,812,221.26; that 1928 gifts totaled $6,858,042.00. Looming in the University's financial background are Julius Rosenwald, John D. Rockefeller Jr., the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Foundation...
...Julius Rosenwald, 66, philanthropist and board-chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. (mail order house), sat, hour after hour and day after day last week, in the divorce court of Judge Joseph Sabath in Chicago. An observer, not a divorce-seeker, was Mr. Rosenwald. As to how he would use his observations, he said: "I have nothing definite I can give out now. If you were a mind-reader you would know what the plans...
...endowment fund for Hebrew Union College. Impressive was the list of names and donations which Mr. Ochs read. From David, Murry, Solomon and Simon Guggenheim, $500,000; from Mrs. Jacob H. Schiff, Mortimer L. Schiff, Mr. and Mrs. Felix Warburg, $500,000; from Julius Rosenwald $500,000 if the fund reaches $4,000,000 by July 1. Other gifts were from New York's Lieutenant-Governor Herbert H. Lehman; from Simon Lazarus, Benjamin Altheimer. . . . Mr. Ochs, modest, had no intention of mentioning his own gift but Chairman of the Executive Committee Ludwig Vogelstein interrupted, announced an Ochs gift...
Round 17. The Sun Life Insurance Co. of Montreal sent proxies for 44,000 shares to Col Stewart. Dartmouth College sent proxies for 2,360 shares to Mr. Rockefeller Jr. Julius Rosenwald, philanthropist and board-chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. came out for Mr. Rockefeller Jr. with the statement: "It was fitting for stockholders in any enterprise to see that the business is managed by officers whom they can trust." But Philanthropist Rosenwald's influence was moral, not financial. He owns no stock in Standard Oil of Indiana...