Word: roebuck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whiskers," became a scrapbookman while in a hospital for two years convalescing from War wounds. He spent his time in reading inspirational essays and verse and pasting up his favorite items. Also he continued an early hobby of memorizing Shakespeare's plays. Seven years ago he persuaded Sears, Roebuck & Co.'s WLS in Chicago to let him broadcast some of the plays, taking all parts himself. The broadcasts were popular and next year he began radio readings from his scrapbooks. That was a far greater success. Listeners everywhere began sending in bits they wanted "Tony" to read, even...
Elected. Lessing J. Rosenwald : chair man of the board of directors of Sears. Roebuck & Co. ; to succeed his father, the late Julius Rosenwald...
Died. Julius Rosenwald, 69, philanthropist, board chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; of arteriosclerosis complicated by heart and kidney disease; in Ravinia...
...after a nervous breakdown; on his 58th birthday; in Manhattan. A philanthropist, giver of $10,000,000 worth of Crane stock to his employes, President Crane with a reputed fortune of $50,000,000 was rated Chicago's second richest man (next to Board Chairman Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck...
...superb burlesque of the usual rotogravure portrait section with pictures which might have been taken from a penny arcade; a fashion section suggestive of the 1915 Sears Roebuck catalog...