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The winner of this contest would be the youngest person to ever design one of Sears' covers and would go on to join the ranks of other Sears cover artists such as Norman Rockwell, George Innes and Andrew Loomis. Entry forms for the design contest were located inside all of Sears 1988 Spring General Catalogs and at all order desks across America.
The Rosenwald Fund (also known as the Rosenwald Foundation, the Julius Rosenwald Fund, and the Julius Rosenwald Foundation) was established in 1917 by Julius Rosenwald and his family for "the well-being of mankind."
Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears (/ s ɪər z / SEERZ), [6] is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began as a mail-order catalog company migrating to opening retail locations in 1925, the first in Chicago. [7]
Get a coupon for 10-20% off at Sears when you donate a blanket in stores as part of Operation Rescue, a drive to provide veterans with blankets. Gently used blankets are being accepted in select ...
Get $5 worth of free tools from Craftsman when you join the company's tool club and opt into its email list. ... introductory offers or for purchases made at Kmart.com, Sears Auctions on eBay ...
In 1895, he became one of its investors, eventually serving as the president of Sears from 1908 to 1922. He was its chairman until his death in 1932. After the 1906 reorganization of the Sears company as a public stock corporation by the financial services firm of Goldman Sachs , one of the senior partners, Paul Sachs , often stayed with the ...
The Searle Freedom Trust, a foundation funded by the company’s former chairman, has doled out more than $200 million in grants over the last decade, sending more money to conservative non ...
Julius Rosenwald (August 12, 1862 – January 6, 1932) was an American businessman and philanthropist.He is best known as a part-owner and leader of Sears, Roebuck and Company, and for establishing the Rosenwald Fund, which donated millions in matching funds to promote vocational or technical education.