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...Capitol Hill the opposition conferred. Unnoted by the press, General Robert Elkington Wood, kingpin of America First, slipped into town. The bulky General moved boldly into the Capitol itself, into the private office of Montana's Isolationist Senator Burton K. Wheeler, in the Senate's Interstate Commerce Committee room...
America First was not in a happy spot. In the unhappiest spot of all was elderly, vehement Robert Elkington Wood, Brigadier General of the U.S. Army (retired), holder of the Distinguished Service Medal, Companion of the British Order of St. Michael and St. George, Knight of the French Legion of Honor, Chairman of the Board of Sears, Roebuck & Co., boss of America First...
...thought you would be interested to know how oldfashioned is one of your leading isolationists, General Robert Elkington Wood. When he comes up to Canada hunting big game he uses an old Krag rifle which puts his toes in great danger, also high-flying birds when he is shooting at deer or sheep. If your other leading men are as up-&-coming as General Wood, God help America in this high-speed...
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...