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Within the office of OPM would be at least three divisions-Production, headed by Glassman John David Biggers; Purchases, bossed by Sears, Roebuck's Donald Marr Nelson; Priorities, bossed by Steelman Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr. The President paused, blew out a cloud of cigaret smoke. The questions popped...
Radiator's Reed defends his orthodoxy by saying: "Only the Master Plumbers have the knowledge, experience and skill necessary to protect the health of the nation by correct installation." The industry's No. 1 d-t-uer, Sears, Roebuck's General Robert Wood, countered: "Henry Reed has been so damn wrong for the last ten years that it's pitiful." In his attacks on the construction industry, Trustbuster Thurman Arnold has befriended the d-t-u's, broadened their market...
Into the mails last week went Montgomery Ward's regular annual bargain catalogue (good until Feb. 28). It met a roughly 10% cut announced two days earlier by Sears, Roebuck (except on refrigerators). Although leather prices have risen 10% since August, the catalogue's shoe prices are down around 10%. Grey-goods prices have risen 15%, but its cotton sheet and print items are down around 14%. Farm prices have risen 6% since August, and these reductions should give the farm section of the mail-order customers a powerful lift in buying power...
...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...