Word: roebuck
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...espousal of open aid to the Allies, believing it would lead the U. S. into war. Furthermore, he thought Seymour's views were not those of the student body and got up a poll showing 3-to-1 on his side. General Robert E. Wood (Sears, Roebuck) heard of the Yalemen's activities, asked Stuart to visit him. Out of their conversation grew the America First Committee...
They did not agree on how much danger the U. S. faces. Lewis W. Douglas of Mutual Life Insurance Co. gave them the interventionist view ("no compromise with oppression, and no covenant with tyranny"), was politely applauded. Sears, Roebuck's General Robert E. Wood argued isolationism, received a spontaneous ovation. As though to duck the dilemma, most speakers belabored N. A. M.'s old, familiar devils: bureaucracy, U. S. fiscal policy, restrictive labor laws. At the session on "Production Aspects of Preparedness," four of the speeches were on labor problems, the fifth on the fifth column...
...replied that they would vote for Roosevelt; 60 said they would vote for Willkie, 40 said that they would too, but did not want to proclaim it from the housetops. Among the 60: Benjamin Buttenwieser, member of Kuhn, Loeb; Lessing J. Rosenwald, former chairman of the board, Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Roger W. Straus, co-chairman of the National Conference of Jews and Christians...
...born (May 28, 1940) of all but "advisory"' power. But last week it watched another feather sewn to the full war regalia it may some day don. Franklin Roosevelt appointed a new four-man priorities board. Administrator was Donald Marr Nelson, the Defense Commission's (formerly Sears, Roebuck's) purchasing agent. Chairman was Commissioner Knudsen, its member commissioners Stettinius, Henderson. Purpose of the board was to work out a priorities system. In some industries-notably among the more defenseless customers of copper- priorities were already needed to determine who gets what. And besides, if logjammed suppliers...
...ordered a set of paints from Sears, Roebuck, got herself some old planks, sheets of tin and pieces of threshing canvas to paint on. Then she started to make pictures of the hilly country around Eagle Bridge. Most of her pictures showed scenes and events of farm life: boiling maple sap on the winter snow, rounding up the turkey for Thanksgiving, covered bridges, Model T Fords, bonfires. Her picture frames she took from old mirrors in the attic. Once she attempted an allegory: a picture of an angel saving two children from falling over a cliff. She labeled...