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Charles Rudolph Walgreen Jr. (March 4, 1906 – February 10, 2007) was an American businessman who was the president of Walgreens from 1939 until 1963 and the chairman of the board from 1963 until 1976.
His son Charles Rudolph Walgreen Jr. (March 4, 1906 – February 10, 2007) and grandson Charles R. Walgreen III both shared his name and played prominent roles in the company he founded. His daughter, Ruth Walgreen, married Justin Whitlock Dart, who left the Walgreens company after they divorced and went on to control the rival Rexall Drug ...
Biography. Walgreen, grandson of Charles Walgreen Sr., who founded the Walgreens drugstore chain in 1901, began his career with the company as a stock boy in 1952. [1][2] He earned a pharmacy degree from the University of Michigan in 1958 and returned to Walgreens, rising through the ranks to become president in 1969, CEO in 1971, and chairman ...
After Walgreen died in 1939, his son Charles R. Walgreen Jr. took over the chain until his retirement. The Charles R. Walgreen Jr. years were relatively prosperous but lacked the massive expansion seen in the early part of the century.
Robert Maynard Hutchins (January 17, 1899 – May 14, 1977) was an American educational philosopher. He was president (1929–1945) and chancellor (1945–1951) of the University of Chicago, and earlier dean of Yale Law School (1927–1929). [1] His first wife was the novelist Maude Hutchins. Although his father and grandfather were both Presbyterian ministers, Hutchins became one of the most ...
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Wag's was a chain of casual dining (or "family") restaurants owned and operated by Walgreens in the 1970s and 1980s. They were modeled after restaurants like Denny's, Shoney's, and Big Boy in that they were mostly 24-hour establishments specializing in inexpensive fare such as hamburgers and breakfast. The chain was based on smaller restaurants ...
Charles Rudolph Walgreen, founder of Walgreens, one of America's largest pharmacy chains; Swedish-born parents [ 72 ] Charles Rudolph Walgreen Jr., President of Walgreens