Think and Grow Rich!
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| JULIUS ROSENWALD Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932), a clothing merchant in New York and then Chicago, bought a one-quarter interest in Sears, Roebuck and Company, becoming its president in 1910 and chairman in 1925. Under his leadership, Sears began the innovative custom of manufacturing its own products for sale. He also came up with Sears soon-to-be-famous satisfaction guaranteed or your money back policy. He turned out to be a challenging philanthropist. He objected to the notion of perpetual endowments such as those Andrew Carnegie established, advocating instead the concept of “matched giving One of his bequests led to the establishment of schools in 15 Southern states for the education of blacks. He also established the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago and donated heavily to the young University of Chicago. 7 CLARENCE DARROW After nine years as a small-town lawyer in Ohio, Clarence S. Darrow (1857-1938) relocated to Chicago in search of more challenging work as a defense attorney. His liberal views led him to take some of the most famous cases of the early 20th century, including the Leopold-Loeb Case, where he saved the two men from the death penalty the Sweet Case, where he successfully defended a black family in Detroit who had been charged for violence against a mob that tried to force them out of a white area and the Scopes Monkey Trial involving Tennessee teacher John T. Scopes, who was charged with teaching evolution, instead of creationism. His main opponent was William Jennings Bryan, former three-time presidential candidate. Despite the widespread view that Darrow had won the contest, Scopes was found guilty. 7 JENNINGS RANDOLPH Jennings Randolph (1902-1998) was graduated from Salem College in 1924. As a young man, he, like Napoleon Hill, worked fora time as a journalist. He served seven terms as a US. Congressman from West Virginia (1933 to 1947) and four full terms as United States Senator (1958 to 1985). Fondly remembered as the last of the New Deal Democrats he gained renown as chairman of the Senate’s Public Works Committee, and he was the legislative father of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. After his death, his Senate colleague, Robert C. Byrd, recalled Randolph’s love of flight: On November 6, 1948, with a professional pilot at the controls, Jennings…flew from Morgantown, West Virginia, to Washington National Airport in a propeller plane fueled with gasoline made from coal. Now, that was just like Jennings Randolph—out there pioneering, not only in flight, but also in the use of fuel in that plane that had a West Virginia source—coal. Certainly, that project was an act of faith, for which many remember Senator Randolph. Randolph authored the 26th Amendment to the Constitution that gave 18-year-olds the right to vote. He was considered the father of the Appalachian Regional Commission, and one of his last major acts was to sponsor legislation preserving it. He served for many years as a member of the Board of Directors of the Napoleon Hill Foundation, established in 1962 by Hill and his wife, Annie Lou. Randolph died of pneumonia at a retirement nursing home in St. Louis on May 8, at the age of 96, and was buried in Seventh-Day Baptist Cemetery in Salem, West Virginia, the town of his birth. He had the distinction of being the last surviving person (non-Hill family member) mentioned by name in the original edition (1937) of Think and Grow Rich! |