Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possibility of making pensions for senior citizens a juicier political racket than the ancient political exploitation of pensions for war veterans. Sheridan Downey won California's Democratic nomination for Senator from Senior Citizen William Gibbs McAdoo, 75. The manager of that performance was one Jackson Elliott...
...Elliott of Los Angeles is a political hack, unillusioned, practical, alert. He managed Senator McAdoo's successful campaign in 1932. Perceiving how ebullient Sheridan Downey from northern California (Atherton, hard by Herbert Hoover's Palo Alto) had run ahead of Author Sinclair in the EPIC campaign, Jackson Elliott cocked an eye at him for 1938 because he knew where lay the biggest unstaked bloc of votes for that year-among EPIC and Townsend-conscious oldsters...
Blanks can be obtained from the following representatives in each House: Adams--Mr. R. B. Schlatter; Dunster--Professor E. S. Mason; Eliot--Dr. J. H. Gleason; Kirkland--Professor C. K. M. Kluckhohn; Leverett--Professor W. C. Greene; Lowell--Professor W. Y. Elliott; Winthrop--Professor D. B. Durand...
...Tires), J. Walter Thompson (Guinness Stout), branch offices of European steamship lines. A Manhattan public relations specialist, Hamilton Wright, reported drawing $2,000 a month from Egypt, $1,000 from Czechoslovakia, $1,250 from Italy (some of his advertising had been placed through a firm in which Presidential Son Elliott had been a partner). Rev. Dr. Alexander Cairns of Bloomfield, N. J. deposed that in seven months he had delivered 138 lectures at $25 apiece on behalf of Japan, which also employed Washington Lawyer Frederick Moore at $500 a month. Piquant were the names of Spain...
...mining town of Silver Bow, Mont, in the year 1904, the picture traces the lives of half-a-dozen of the guests, ending, for no particular reason, when they meet again to get the early returns in 1908. Ostensibly its three heroines are Louise, Helen, and Grace Elliott, daughters of Silver Bow's druggist, but before much footage has slid through the projection machines, it becomes apparent that Helen (Anita Louise) and Grace (Jane Bryan) function chiefly to preserve a semblance of the sorority pattern that served Warners so well in Four Daughters...