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...sprawling gingerbread Gothic and its Prairie Avenue. Sooty railroads, industry, and worst of all, the "black belt" began to creep up to the gingerbread creations. Society surrendered. It began an exodus to the North Side -to Lake Shore Drive, Astor Street, Sheridan Road, Lake Forest. Not so, Julius Rosenwald-he would stand by the South Side. He did not object to the Negroes; he was their friend; he had given millions for their advancement. Mr. Rosenwald is no idle dreamer. He is a profoundly respected business man (Sears, Roebuck & Co.), one of its most generous philanthropists. He has always been...
...protest candidate a strong, clean Republican on an Administration anticorruption platform. Personally, I should be happy to support such a candidate." In New London, Conn., Col. Frank L. Smith, recuperating from an illness, read his papers, said curtly: "I do not feel called upon to answer Julius Rosenwald or any other individual." Meanwhile, Mr. Rosenwald arrived at White Pine Camp, became slightly ill, postponed his session with the President for a day. Finally they conversed. The press waited greedily for a Presidential statement. Would Mr. Coolidge urge Colonel Smith to withdraw, and do nothing about Mr. Vare of Pennsylvania? Whom...
...voice belonged to Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings, who had been president of the Peoples' Gas Light & Coke Co. before Samuel Insull. It is not surprising that Mr. Billings had a slightly different opinion than Mr. Rosenwald. The two men are as unlike as their homes. Julius clings to a ghost of the old South Side; Cornelius stayed in Chicago long enough to be a director of the World's Columbian Exposition, then went away to build palaces on Manhattan, to sail yachts into Constantinople, to breed horses in Virginia...
...department store wares, last week rejoiced over two costly filial presents. From John G. Shedd, aging board chairman of Marshall Field & Co., came a third million to add to two he had promised for the construction of a ne plus ultra city aquarium in Grant Park. From Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears Roebuck & Co.), came three millions outright to restore the old Fine Arts building of World's Fair days in Jackson Park and house within it a museum of industrial progress. Mr. Shedd's increased aquarium gift came forth promptly when he learned that two millions would...
...Chicago last week the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ended its annual deliberations. Many a notable such as Julius Rosenwald and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, friendly to Negroes, had been heard. Resolutions were passed and a million dollar program for promoting more perfect race equality was adopted. The climax came when the Spingarn medal, the symbol of Negro distinction, was presented to Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson for "ten years' service in collecting and publishing records of the Negro in America...