Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...construction five more Clippers and the first Stratoliner, built like the Army's Flying Fortress, but equipped with a pressurized cabin.* Down the Duwamish tenders carefully nudged the great flying boat, nursed her sidewise through bridge spans narrower than her 152-foot wing spread, eventually moored her in Elliott Bay off Puget Sound...
...Senate. Since Governor Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler is hot after Mr. Barkley's seat,*Paducah will be Franklin Roosevelt's most Important political stop, on July 9. Next on his visiting list will come Oklahoma, where faithful Senator Elmer Thomas is up for reelection, next, his son Elliott in Fort Worth, Texas...
...Foreign Office, Etonians are being shouldered out by the products of more plebeian schools. Even those who cherish Eton's traditions most tenderly admit that Eton needs some reforms. A few have been introduced by Eton's new (since 1933) headmaster, Claude Aurelius ("The Emperor") Elliott. A typical Etonian, Headmaster Elliott at 50 still climbs mountains and writes articles on mountaineering and history...
...feel "decked out beyond description." At festive functions for 25 years she wore them around her long, graceful throat. When her children began marrying, she began cutting down her collar pearls, row by row. First she gave James's bride a string of them, in 1930. Then Elliott's two brides, then Franklin Jr.'s. Last week she sent a string to John's fiancee, Anne Lindsay Clark of Boston-*the last of the old dog collar...
...forceful head of the newly-formed National Progressives of America proposed to meet this problem by a policy of "collective individualism" which would harness the profit motive for social ends. He denied any similarity between his system and that of the "collective capitalism" defined as Fascism by William Y. Elliott, professor of Government...