Word: elliott
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Both Eleanor's and Franklin's letters, which they wrote as diaries of their trips, together with Mama's answers and letters to and from other members of the Roosevelt clan, are collected in Vol. II of F.D.R., His Personal Letters (edited by son Elliott* and published by Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $5). Vol. I (TIME, Oct. 13, 1947) took F.D.R. from boyhood to young manhood; Vol. II carries him from his honeymoon...
...Very Sad." He was an impatient, young (32) Assistant Secretary of the Navy. He wrote Babs: "These dear good people like W.J.B. [Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan] and J.D. [Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels] have about as much conception of what a general European war means as Elliott has of higher mathematics." Later: ' I am running the real work, although Josephus is here. He is bewildered by it all, very sweet but very...
...other news of Elliott, see PEOPLE...
...Elliott Roosevelt and his wife, Actress Faye Emerson, were again determined to "make Christians out of Christmas tree dealers." Last year they undercut upstate New York dealers by selling 20,000 trees from their Val-Kill farm at $1 each. This month, with the price up from 75? to 95? apiece, they will take 50,000 trees to Manhattan, where tree dealers have never spared the customer...
...Elliott peered out from under bushy red eyebrows and a soiled worker's cap. "It's not that we object to the machine so much," Alf said. "We're all for the machine just so it don't replace us and make us-" he groped for a 10-bob word-"and make us redundant. But the guv'nor [the boss] just put it on without consulting us and laid off those men. We can't allow that...