Douglass had met with Auld's daughter, Amanda Auld Sears, some years prior ; she had requested the meeting and had subsequently attended and cheered one of Douglass ' speeches.

The Sears Tower was not the draw Sears had hoped it would be.

By 1995 Sears had completely vacated the building, moving to a new office campus in Hoffman Estates.

By 1908 Rosenwald, son of an immigrant clothier, had become part-owner and president of Sears, Roebuck and Company in Chicago.

On Veterans Day, November 11, 1981, Dan Goodwin, who had successfully climbed the Sears Tower on Memorial Day, battled for his life on the side of the John Hancock Center.

Sears had developed and sold the Telecaption adapter, a decoding unit that could be connected to a standard television set.

I asked my dad for a set of drums for my tenth birthday but he came home with a Sears Silvertone guitar ... I had wanted a set of drums, but my folks couldn't afford them, so I got the guitar.

Shackelford's descendants continued to live in the county, and by the nineteenth century had intermarried with the Taliaferro, Beverley, Thornton and Sears families, among others.

Historian and biographer Stephen W. Sears has called McClellan's actions " essentially sound " if he had been as outnumbered as he believed, but McClellan in fact rarely had less than a two-to-one advantage over his opponents in 1861 and 1862.

It is now home to almost 70 stores and is anchored by Macy's ( located in the original O ' Neils store that had become Kaufmann's for a period of time ), Sears, and JCPenney ( a later addition to the mall ).

It was on the Manhole album that Kantner and Slick next worked with Pete Sears ( who had first played on Papa John Creach's first solo album ), who was co-producing a Kathi McDonald album in the same studio.

Already in 1973 First Chicago Bank had identified Sears as its real competitor. Citicorp CEO Walter Wriston reached the same conclusion later in the 1970s.

By 1982, using the “ unitary thrift ” and “ nonbank bank ” “ loopholes ”, Sears had built the “ Sears Financial Network ”, which combined “ Super NOW ” accounts and mortgage loans through a large California-based savings and loan, the Discover Card issued by a “ nonbank bank ,” securities brokerage through Dean Witter Reynolds, home and auto insurance through Allstate, and real estate brokerage through Coldwell Banker.

Similarly, the failure of the Sears Financial Network and other nonbank “ financial supermarkets ” that had seemed to threaten commercial banks in the 1980s undermined the argument that financial conglomerates would be more efficient than “ specialized ” financial firms.

The toy Johnny Hero was introduced by Rosko Industries for Sears in 1965, but was known as a " Boy's Doll " since the term action figure had not gained widespread usage.

In the resulting aftermath, the University determined that Bresch's degree had been awarded without having the prerequisite requirements met and rescinded it, leading to the resignation of president Michael Garrison, provost Gerald Lang, and business school dean Steve Sears.

With his political career seemingly over and with massive debts stemming from his 1974 gubernatorial bid, Maddox began a short-lived nightclub comedy career in 1977 with an African American, Bobby Lee Sears, who had worked as a busboy in his restaurant.

He next worked for Sears, Roebuck and Company in the installation department from March 1948 to September 1949, when he moved to Lone Star, Texas, and attempted cattle raising.

His father worked for a large bakery in Little Rock, Colonial Bakery, and then went to work for the Little Rock Fire Department ( rising to the rank of captain ), while his mother at first worked for Sears Roebuck & Company, and then in the controller's office at the state capitol.

In Chicago, Hillman worked briefly picking orders in a warehouse for $ 6 a week before finding a slightly better-paying job in the infants ' wear department of Sears, Roebuck & Co. as a clerk.

" Duncan also worked as a grocery bagger and salesman at Sears while working his way though school.

He traveled around the country, bouncing from job to job, and worked as catalogue model for Sears Roebuck & Co. An acting coach suggested that he try the stage, and Tierney joined the Black Friars theatre group and later the American-Irish Theatre.

For a period, to help make ends meet, Katherine worked as a store clerk in a local Sears store.

Born in Muncie, Indiana, Croft worked extensively as an actress in radio, appearing on such programs as The Adventures of Sam Spade, Suspense, The Beulah Show, The Bill Goodwin Show, Blondie, Broadway Is My Beat, Cathy and Elliott Lewis on Stage, Crime Classics, Four-Star Playhouse, Honest Harold, Joan Davis Time, The Mel Blanc Show, One Man's Family, Our Miss Brooks, Romance, Sears Radio Theater, The Story of Sandra Martin and Twelve Players.

Sainer worked closely with Clore in developing his retail activities, eventually helping him to set up Sears plc.

At 17 he worked as a farm-hand for Judge Epenetus Sears of Tabor, Iowa.

Sears worked as a law clerk for the New York State Court of Appeals from 1963-65 when he became a member of the law firm of Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Alexander, Guthrie & Mitchell for two years before joining Richard M. Nixon's staff.

Perry worked in a Sears department store, and was drafted for the army in 1965 where he served two years in Germany.

Sears executives decided to consolidate the thousands of employees in offices distributed throughout the Chicago area into one building on the western edge of Chicago's Loop.

A brief resurgence of production beginning in the early 1970s yielded the Mutual Broadcasting System's The Zero Hour ( hosted by Rod Serling ), National Public Radio's Earplay, and veteran Himan Brown's CBS Radio Mystery Theater and General Mills Radio Adventure Theater, later followed by the Sears / Mutual Radio Theater, The National Radio Theater of Chicago, NPR Playhouse, a newly produced episode of the former 1950s series X Minus One, and works by a new generation of dramatists, notably Yuri Rasovsky, Thomas Lopez of ZBS and the dramatic sketches heard on humorist Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.

The Divorcee is a 1930 American drama film written by Nick Grindé, John Meehan and Zelda Sears, based on the novel Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott.

At the time of the U. S crash, there were numerous consoles on the market, including the Atari 2600, the Atari 5200, the Bally Astrocade, the ColecoVision, the Coleco Gemini ( a 2600 clone ), the Emerson Arcadia 2001, the Fairchild Channel F System II, the Magnavox Odyssey < sup > 2 </ sup >, the Mattel Intellivision ( and its just-released update with several peripherals, the Intellivision II ), the Sears Tele-Games systems ( which included both 2600 and Intellivision clones ), the Tandyvision ( an Intellivision clone for Radio Shack ), and the Vectrex.

* Uncle Tom's cabin: or Life among the lowly ; frontispiece by John Gilbert ; ornamental title-page by Phiz ; and 130 engravings on wood by Matthew Urlwin Sears, 1853 ( a searchable facsimile at the University of Georgia Libraries ; DjVu & layered PDF format )

Balin sang on one song, " Caroline ," and in addition to Kantner and Slick the band consisted of David Freiberg ( keyboards, bass ), Craig Chaquico ( lead guitar ), Pete Sears ( bass, keyboards ), John Barbata ( drums ) and Papa John Creach ( electric violin ).

The city has a surviving group of Sears Catalog Homes, with several available for exterior viewing on a self-guided tour.

The first edition was won by Richard Sears who went on to win seven consecutive singles titles.

Ferris, Sloane and Cameron enjoy many sights of the city, including a Cubs game at Wrigley Field, visits to the Sears Tower, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange as well as taking part in the Von Steuben Day Parade, where Ferris lip-syncs to " Danke Schoen " and The Beatles ' version of " Twist and Shout " while riding on a parade float.

Czyz made three defenses-a one-round defeat of David Sears, a see-saw second-round KO of Willie Edwards, and a fifth-round TKO of Jim McDonald-before taking on ' Prince ' Charles Williams in October 1987.

Chain stores previously located downtown — Woolworth's, W. T. Grant, S. S. Kresge, JC Penney and Sears Roebuck — shut their doors or moved to malls on the outskirts of Lewiston or Auburn.

A Sears Diehard car battery commercial was filmed here in the 1970s, playing on the city's extremely cold winter climate to promote the longevity and effectiveness of the product.

The site of Plainview's first sod house is on city land ; the city also has two Sears Catalog homes.

To target farmers, Sears bought time on radio stations, and then decided to form their own station.

Just before the permanent station was ready, Sears began broadcasts on March 21, 1924 as WBBX with noon programs using the WMAQ studios.

Sears broadcast test transmissions from its own permanent studios on April 9, 10 and 11, 1924, using the callsign WES ( for " World's Economy Store ").

Sears originally operated its station at its Chicago headquarters on Chicago's West Side where the company's mail order business was located.

Another mall, Cherryland Center, is located on Garfield Avenue on the south end of town ; this mall features Kmart, Younkers, and Sears.

Sears wrote and recorded the song, " Better Lying Down " with Slick, and played bass on the song " Epic # 38 ".