Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, Elliott had another interview with the Press on the subject of Miss Googins. "I don't affirm or deny anything. My father is entirely familiar with all my future plans. The Roosevelt family is a closed corporation. When one decides to do something, all the others get behind him. I will be in Chicago until noon Saturday in any event," he concluded. ''At that time I will announce my plans for the next 24 hours...
...that time, Miss Googins & mother were in Burlington. Iowa, at the home of her uncle, a banker named George C. Swiler. Mr. Swiler, on Saturday, got a marriage license for the young couple and the fateful news was at last out. The night before Elliott and Anna Dall drove in from Chicago. That afternoon he and Miss Googins, refreshed by a swim, were married by a retired Congregationalist minister (the Roosevelts are Episcopalians), on the Swiler lawn overlooking the Mississippi. The bride wore white georgette crepe. The groom, who also received a ring, wore flannel trousers, camel's hair...
...course I'm thrilled about marrying Elliott!" chirped the bride...
...mother was somewhere en route home from Campobello Island, N. B., but Elliott said he had talked "frequently" by long distance telephone with his father at the White House. "Father was very, very jovial," he said...
...added Elliott, preparing to leave with his new wife for Fort Worth, "after all, a man's got to have some privacy...