Reminiscences of Robert Elkington Wood, 1961

Biographical Note

Executive, government official

Scope and Contents

Family background, West Point; Philippines, 1901-02; Panama Canal, 1905-15; DuPont, General Asphalt; World War I: shipbuilding program, Army Transport Service, Acting Quartermaster General; Montgomery Ward, 1919-24; establishment of retail stores; Sears, Roebuck, 1924-61: shopping centers, profit sharing, Allstate; New Deal; America First; supply problems in World War II: labor relations

Subjects

• Department stores.
• Executives--Interviews.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Montgomery Ward.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Panama Canal (Panama)
• Sears, Roebuck and Company.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States. Army.
• Weisberger, Bernard T., interviewer.
• Wood, Robert E. (Robert Elkington), 1879-1969--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1972