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...Roosevelt's invitation, Mrs. Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt, Elliott's divorced wife, and her son William, aged 1 year, arrived at the White House for a two weeks' stay. As soon as her guest was comfortably settled, the First Lady made off to Groton to see her son John, to Boston to be with James. She planned to be in Warm Springs by Thanksgiving...
Reader Martoccio's point is well-taken. Elliott Roosevelt is not, per se, a figure of national consequence. But a divorce and speedy remarriage in the nation's first family was conspicuous if not important. And historians of the future will point to the Roosevelt-Donner-Googins switch as the "first White House divorce." Had TIME reported it elsewhere than under The Presidency, the place would have been Milestones, not People.-ED. Rules for Asterisks...
...went on. In the midst of these busy times, Andrew Mellon, aged 45, finally married. His wife was Nora McMullen, daughter of a Dublin distiller, whom Mellon met while she was visiting in Pittsburgh. Donora, Union Steel's new works, was named after the bride and W. H. Donner, Union Steel's president (first father-in-law of Elliott Roosevelt). Considering the other projects which Andrew Mellon had afoot in those years her later complaint that he devoted too much time to business, too little to her, sounds genuine. The marriage lasted only ten years. The divorce...
...airplane from Reno to Chicago one day last week contained among its passengers the President's second son Elliott. Elliott had just been divorced from Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt, whom he married in January 1932, and by whom his son William Donner was born last November. Visiting in Chicago when he arrived were Mrs. Joseph Boynton Googins of Fort Worth, Tex., and" her dark-haired daughter, Ruth Josephine...
...Sanderson Ogle, novelist; and Christian Eliot, nephew of Granville John Eliot, Earl of St. Germans; in Las Vegas, Nev., day after she was granted a divorce from her third husband, Arthur James Ogle in Juarez, Mex. Divorced. Elliott Roosevelt, 22, the President's second son; by Elizabeth Browning Donner Roosevelt, 21; in Minden, Nev. Elliott, who had established residence at Lake Tahoe, followed a pre-arranged program by filing suit first, charging "extreme mental cruelty" which caused him "great mental agony and suffering." Then from Philadelphia Elizabeth Roosevelt dispatched by airmail a cross-suit, under which the decree...