Word: elkington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exit Standing ruggedly ready but idle in the wings of the New Deal show for several weeks has been General Robert Elkington Wood, president of Sears, Roebuck & Co. Last March when business appeasement was in the wind Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins invited him to Washington as a special adviser. Since then Harry Hopkins has been ill, and appeasement in U. S. politics like appeasement in European politics, has lost its vigor. Last week, as even hoped-for revision of deterrent corporate taxes disappeared (see p. 17), General Wood left the wings without going on stage and returned...
...months Chicago's LaSalle Street has buzzed with rumors that stormy, exuberant General Robert Elkington Wood was about to resign as president of Sears, Roebuck & Co. and campaign for public office, possibly the Presidency of the U. S. Sears has a rule that executives must retire at 60; the rambunctious General is 59 and no man to twiddle his thumbs...
Modest President Robert Elkington Wood of Sears, Roebuck, as usual, did not attend last week's opening, let the credit go to Manager Chauncey T. Ray. Manager Ray started work on State Street at the age of eleven, as cash boy for Charles Gossards' (now Carson Pirie Scott), later went to Marshall Field. He left in 1930 to become an assistant manager of a Sears, Roebuck store. Last week, at 47, he was back on State Street as manager of a store that may become biggest...
Married. Frances Elkington Wood, daughter of President Robert Elkington Wood of Sears. Roebuck & Co.; and Calvin Fentress Jr. of Hubbard Woods, Ill.; by Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires of Long Island, uncle of the bride; at Highland Park...
Married. Sarah Stires Wood, daughter of President Robert Elkington Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; and James Roland Addington, Chicago socialite; in Highland Park, Ill., by the Rev. Ernest M. Stires. Bishop of Long Island, uncle of the bride...