Business & Finance: Sears, Roebuck

The Ku Klux Klan has been cited as the cause of many curious happenings. The latest story of the masked order to circulate in business circles is to the effect that it had organized a systematic boycott of Sears, Roebuck & Co. through the small towns of the South and West, because of that firm's predominantly Jewish ownership and management.

Undoubtedly it is true that Sears, Roebuck's business has not been making anything like as good a showing of late as its rival in the mail-order business, Montgomery Ward & Co., and this fact is...

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