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...Julius Rosenwald of Chicago, famed for Negro philanthropies, recently gave $25,000 to Fisk University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: At Fisk | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...forced them to scratch and sow the ground. During 1927 not less than 8,000 Russian retailers became farmers, according to Soviet statistics. Last week this process of readjustment, painful to Jews, seemed about to be smoothed by a philanthropic gift of $5,000,000 from famed Julius Rosenwald, chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. (mail orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Jew Farmers | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...Rosenwald announced that his gift would be made on condition that an additional $5,000,000 be subscribed by other philanthropists. He selected as the recipient of this contingent contribution the parent board, of the so-called Agro-Joint or "American Jewish Joint Agricultural Corporation." Though little famed, the Corporation has been functioning since 1924 in an effort to get Jews established as painlessly as possible on the rich farm lands granted them by the Soviet State in the Ukraine, Crimea and White Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Jew Farmers | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

From the founding of Agro-Joint in 1924 up to the present year, it has loaned out more than $3,000,000 to Jewish farmers in Soviet Russia and spent more than $400,000 in educating them in modern agricultural methods. The new subscription which was announced by Philanthropist Rosenwald, last week, will so broaden the work of Agro-Joint that it will merge into a new corporation to be founded for Jewish land settlement in Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Jew Farmers | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

Engaged. William Rosenwald, 24; son of Julius Rosenwald, chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck & Co., multi-millionaire philanthropist, of Chicago; to Miss Renee Scharf, of Vienna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 16, 1928 | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

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