Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sudden A. F. of L. interest in unionized racketeering. Before the council, by Investigator Edward F. McGrady, was laid the specific case of President Sam Kaplan of Motion Picture Machine Operators Union Local 306, New York City. The council referred the Kaplan matter to President William C. Elliott of the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employes who promised "special attention immediately." Then easy-going William Green, A. F. of L. president, came out with a public statement which, for him, sounded like a trumpet blast...
Alison Mary Elliott Margaret Markham-Skipworth, 57, is Hollywood's most reliable grande dame or "high class wicked woman." At 20 she was the wife of artist Frank Markham-Skipworth and starving in London. "To keep from starving" she took a part as understudy to Marie Tempest in The Artist's Model, nine months later was playing the lead in Manhattan. She once paid Douglas Fairbanks Sr. $40 a week as a juvenile. She has owned a chicken farm on Long Island for 28 years, will some day retire...
...senior. She married someone else. To visitors at his office he exhibits a baby's shoe which he keeps on the top shelf of a book case. It belonged to the California girl's firstborn. Some 25 years ago (he does not remember exactly when) he married Mary Elliott Putnam. They have no children. His wife does not share his enthusiasm for them. Also, he says, having children of his own might destroy, by "paternal poisoning," his interest in all children...
Joseph Wright Harriman, founder-president of Manhattan's Harriman National Bank & Trust Co., nephew of the late Railroader Edward Henry Harriman, retired to the board chairmanship in favor of Henry Elliott Cooper, formerly one of Chase National Bank's 74 vice presidents and a onetime member of John Davison Rockefeller's personal staff. Harriman National was founded as Night & Day Bank (open continuously), changed its name in 1911, still remains open for business from...
...boomed the confused sounds of the Democratic convention in Chicago. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his lame legs stretched out before him, official duties forgotten, leaned back and listened happily. At his feet was his Scotch terrier, Megs. Nearby hovered his wife Anna. His 77-year-old mother knitted silently. Sons Elliott, 21, and John, 16, paced about in nervous excitement...