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...Vice President's last full-time writer. Cynthia Rosenwald, left his staff three months...
...Show. Ascoli and his wife Marion Rosenwald, a Sears, Roebuck heiress, wearied of making up deficits. Very much the editorial autocrat, Ascoli had trouble grooming a successor. He hired a succession of distinguished editors: Harlan Cleveland, Theodore H. White, Theodore Draper, Irving Kristol. But none of them stayed very long. Through it all, the Reporter remained steady, sober, unsensational...
...nearly always easier to make $1,000,000 honestly than to dispose of it wisely," said Julius Rosenwald, who developed this sentiment while giving away most of his $700 million mail-order fortune (Sears, Roebuck & Co.). Andrew Carnegie was uneasily convinced that "the man who dies rich dies disgraced," and to avoid that humiliation, he began investing a personal estate of $400 million in the public weal. In 1911, after twelve years of uninterrupted and unprecedented generosity, he still had $150 million left. Carnegie solved the problem by establishing the Carnegie Corporation of New York and endowing it with...
...uncles. The family business had started in Vincennes, Ind., in 1842. The Gimbel brothers built bigger stores in Milwaukee and Philadelphia, but "Bernie" insisted that they move to New York, where the real action was. He picked out a $9,000,000 site, and he got Julius Rosenwald, his friend, who was Sears, Roebuck chairman, to hint to the family that if Gimbels was not interested in the property, Sears would...
...authors of the report--Dustin M. Burke '52, general manager of the HSA, Charles H. Everill '65, and Harold Rosenwald '27, HSA general counsel--apologized for the length of the report, but felt that a sunperilcial treatment of the matter can serve the interests of none...