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Young Rosenwald Starts Business Career at 19

August 7, 1934
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Nineteen-year-old Julius Rosenwald II, arrived here yesterday “to learn the business from the bottom up” in the Seattle branch of Sears, Roebuck and Co.

The son of Lessing J. Rosenwald, chairman of the board of directors of Sears, Roebuck and Co., the firm which Julius Rosenwald founded, starts work tomorrow as a clerk in the mail order department of the branch. He will punch a time clock every morning.

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