Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bailey's boat: Elliott, Pierce, Richardson, Bodell, Fay, Koeniger, Evarts, and Larner...
Died. Robert Greene Elliott, 65, for 13 years official executioner for New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Vermont, Massachusetts; of coronary embolism; in Richmond Hill, N. Y. Named for a Methodist minister who opposed capital punishment, tall, grey Robert Elliott electrocuted 400 persons, five of them women. Among them: Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Two-Gun Crowley, Sacco & Vanzetti, Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Successor to his $150-a-night job: Joseph Francel, 42, American Legionnaire, garageman and electrician, who has already officiated once, when Robert Elliott was confined to his bed last summer...
Professor Elliott based his belief that the war would be long and drawn out on the fact that England must fight the battle out or be crippled as an Empire. A truce at present would consolidate the Italian and German position in Europe. Furthermore, he added, such a peace would be disastrous for this country...
...United States are concerned, Professor Elliott claims that "there is no serious threat of our being drawn into the conflict," that the immediate problem is planning a national policy for a long war. The greatest threat to the position of this country he feels lies in possible action by the Japanese navy in the Pacific, where it is essential that the United States maintain a balance of power in the Far East "in which it holds the balance...
...regard to the present neutrality law, Professor Elliott feels that it should be repealed...