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...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...
Their crusade was sincere and dignified, their membership select. Into it came men like Lessing Rosenwald (son of Sears, Roebuck's famed president, Julius), intimate with Wood and associated with him at Sears; wealthy, influential, socially prominent Edward Ryerson Jr. (steel); wealthy, bluff Sterling Morton (salt). Eager to speak for its cause was such an impeccably American woman as Kathleen Norris, eminently successful writer of he-she stories for women's magazines, a sincere and emotional pacifist who hates war. For the most part, members confined themselves chiefly to writing to the President, until last January when...
Chosen as head of the bureau-on rec ommendation of Donald Nelson,* head of the Supply Priorities & Allocations Board -was Nelson's old private-industry boss: ex-Board Chairman Lessing Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck & Co. Shy, esthetic Lessing Rosenwald retired in 1939, since has administered his philanthropies (including the noted Rosenwald Fund started by his father) and pursued his hobby of collecting etchings. Last summer he went to Washington as head of OPM's commodity section on silk. He was once a member of the America First Committee and an outspoken Willkie supporter in the last campaign...
...Communist symbol of the party in New York City (TIME, Aug. 25) shows what is locally called a dung fork or manure fork rather than a "pitchfork" as TIME delicately calls it. Herewith a Sears, Roebuck clipping for authority...
...working Baruch for the duration was the man chosen to be SPAB's executive director: Donald Marr Nelson, ex-vice president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., and until last week OPM's Purchasing Director...