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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...
Engaged, Sarah Stires Wood, debutante daughter of President Robert Elkington Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; and James Roland Addington, Chicago socialite; in Chicago...
Wherever two or three tycoons were gathered together last week, they made speeches about the state-of-the-nation, all as optimistic as possible (see p. 18). Most important gathering was the Seventh Conference of Major Industries, in Chicago. Most arresting contribution there came from President Robert Elkington Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co. He recited the following little-realized facts, significant to students of the nation's buying power...