Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only since 1863 has Thanksgiving had a consistent year-to-year day, but football coaches were furious: 30% of them had games scheduled Nov. 30 which would now play to ordinary weekday crowds. Calendar-makers took the blow quietly except for Elliott-Greer Stationery Co. of Amarillo, Tex., which happily discovered it had designated Nov. 23 as Thanksgiving Day by mistake. Alf Landon sounded off in Colorado as follows: ". . . Another illustration of the confusion which his impulsiveness has caused so frequently during his administration. If the change has any merit at all, more time should have been taken in working...
...Mayor LaGuardia and Thomas ("Uncorkable") Corcoran. Interpretation: after his talk last fortnight with Mr. Farley, Mr. Roosevelt decided to appease local bosses; in this instance, abandoned the Corcoran plan to encircle Republican County Attorney Tom Dewey with brilliant New Deal prosecutors and prosecutions. Exaggeration (on the radio by Son Elliott Roosevelt): "Brooklyn is the key to the 1940 election...
...Charles E. Coughlin, whom not only Jews consider antiSemitic. Since the three major U. S. networks will have nothing to do with Radiorator Coughlin, NAB's hint was directed at the independent stations which still sell him time. Last week one famed independent radioman, President Elliott Roosevelt of the Texas State Radio network, put in a biting 2? worth. On one of his thrice-weekly newscasts over Mutual Broadcasting System sponsored by Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp., Radioman Roosevelt blurted...
...Father Coughlin a chance to talk back on the next Roosevelt broadcast, the radio priest demurred. Said he, it would be "undignified" for him to aid the sale of Emerson products. Then big Mutual offered to put him on at its own expense. Father Coughlin again demurred, explained that Elliott Roosevelt would be taken care of by his "spokesman," Father Edward Lodge Curran of Brooklyn's International Catholic Truth Society, on the regular Coughlin network this week.* Radiomen recalling that Father Coughlin had turned down an invitation to talk on NBC's Town Meeting...
...Said Spokesman Curran: "It is doubtful if Elliott Roosevelt would ever be on the air in the guise of a speaker were he not the son of a President...