Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seeing Eye," Mrs. Eustis told the Institute last week, grew out of a breeding station for German shepherd dogs which she established in 1923 at Fortunate Fields, her comfortable estate near Vevey, Switzerland. At first, as a hobby, Mrs. Eustis and her friend,, Geneticist Elliott S. Humphrey, bred and trained dogs to patrol the Swiss borders for the customs office and the State police. So impressed was Mrs. Eustis by the "teachability" of German shepherds that in 1928 she wrote an article about her smart dogs for Saturday Evening Post, mentioned the fact that shepherds every day led several thousand...
Last week Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt went to Texas to visit her grandson, Elliott Roosevelt, who lives with his second wife on a ranch near Fort Worth. Between trains in St. Louis she talked with newshawks about her son in the White House, declared: 'I can't see why anyone should criticize him. He is doing everything he possibly can for everyone." At Fort Worth one of her first queries to Grandson Elliott was: "Do you think your father gets his swims every day? I wish he wouldn't miss so many." Then to news hawks...
Cleon B. White of the National Broadcasting Company acted as Master of Ceremonies. The Freshman committee consisted of: Richard R. Flood, chairman; Elliott Bacon, John C. Bowen, Charles Burwell, George Earle, William C. Flynn, H. Rushton Harwood, Donald McDonald, Hugh McNeil, Robert W. Sarnoff, and Clifford W. Wilson...
Refusing to meet Elliott Roosevelt the local airport, Pittsburgh's eccentric Mayor William Nissley McNair growled: "I won't shake hands with of the Roosevelts." The President's second son said he thought Mayor McNair "a surly sort of cuss...
...Harriman bank stock on the market, he concluded that criminal prosecution of Bankster Harriman just then would endanger other Clearing House banks. To postpone such prosecution until the bank's affairs were in order, Mr. Harriman was eased into the board chairmanship, and Mr. McCain induced Henry Elliott Cooper, onetime Chase National vice president, to take the presidency of Harriman National Bank & Trust. On the witness stand last week Mr. Cooper recalled that Mr. McCain had said: "We won't let your bank fail, Henry. The Clearing House will stand behind you regardless." Mr. McCain later gave...