Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subscriber to your magazine I would like to know by what virtue is the divorce and subsequent marriage of Elliott Roosevelt entitled to about two columns under National Affairs...
Reader Martoccio's point is well-taken. Elliott Roosevelt is not, per se, a figure of national consequence. But a divorce and speedy remarriage in the nation's first family was conspicuous if not important. And historians of the future will point to the Roosevelt-Donner-Googins switch as the "first White House divorce." Had TIME reported it elsewhere than under The Presidency, the place would have been Milestones, not People.-ED. Rules for Asterisks...
...aged 45, finally married. His wife was Nora McMullen, daughter of a Dublin distiller, whom Mellon met while she was visiting in Pittsburgh. Donora, Union Steel's new works, was named after the bride and W. H. Donner, Union Steel's president (first father-in-law of Elliott Roosevelt). Considering the other projects which Andrew Mellon had afoot in those years her later complaint that he devoted too much time to business, too little to her, sounds genuine. The marriage lasted only ten years. The divorce was bitterly but privately fought in the courts. Through his friend Boies...
Forrest R. Snyder, O. Cousens, S. W. Crocker, Elliott W. Robbins, James D. Reiher, Harriet Cooms, Joan Stoddard, J. P. Reisman, Eleanor Packard, William Ray, G. Louise, Robert H. Walker, Arky deRosset, H. G. White, A. P. Felton, Catherine E. Jodoin, J. McClellan Laughin, Marguerite Walsh, Kenneth G. Cloby, D. Armstrong, Barbara Cobb, Barbara Cox, Robert' A. Sard, Henry P. Walker, Jr., John Mitchell, Jane Hawkes, Augusta Flagg, Fonchen Usher, William W. Lord, Jane Gilman, Helena Niescherg, Winston J. Rowe, William Dennis, Miss H. Randal, Erik Lundberg, Franklin C. Forbes, L. A. Vigneras, G. Fuler, Willys Spencer, Peggy Moss Priscilla...
...Married. Elliott Roosevelt, 22, the President's second son; and Ruth Googins, 23, of Fort Worth, Tex.; in Burlington, Iowa...