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Elected. Lessing J. Rosenwald : chair man of the board of directors of Sears. Roebuck & Co. ; to succeed his father, the late Julius Rosenwald...
...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...
Married. Frances Elkington Wood, daughter of President Robert Elkington Wood of Sears. Roebuck & Co.; and Calvin Fentress Jr. of Hubbard Woods, Ill.; by Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires of Long Island, uncle of the bride; at Highland Park...
Montgomery Ward finally declined to listen to terms of one share of Sears for each two and a half shares of its own stock. When the bigger company was convinced of this its vice chairman, Lessing Rosenwald, said: "We felt that those terms were a very fair proposal. . . ." Sears, Roebuck officials definitely stated that they could not consider a consolidation on any terms less favorable to Sears, Roebuck than the two and a half for one basis. This was one of the rare times that terms had been discussed by officials of either company despite the innumerable outcroppings...