Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week there were no changes in these traditional plans. But the mood of Christmas 1940 was different-in the White House as in many another U. S. home. For the first time the children were scattered-Anna stayed in Seattle, James on the Pacific Coast, John in Boston. Elliott, traveling for the Army, could not get to Washington. Only Franklin Jr., his wife and Franklin Roosevelt III, aged 2½, were on hand as in the past. There were only two children to hang their stockings on the mantelpiece in the President's bedroom-Franklin III and Harry...
...card to his mother with all the Ns right side up, the Ss turned the right way around, and asking for "some little boats." So it was through the Christmas seasons during the '30's, when they all trooped to the White House-James, Anna, John, Elliott, Franklin Jr., "Sistie" and "Buzzie" Dall, the in-laws, and, as the one-woman embodiment of all the Roosevelt traditions, the President's mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt...
...National Defense that had seemed rather nasty--it quoted several Congressmen as urging "concentration camps" for certain "unpatriotic" labor leaders who wouldn't "cooperate." ... He'd heard Alfred Sloan and Professor Seavey talk about the need for labor to "sacrifice" some of its gains, and he'd heard Professor Elliott speak of knowing how to "deal with dissident elements." ... Most of all, Vag had heard talk about the need for doing away with the right to strike in defense industries. ... And he wondered if he'd heard the whole story...
Even making due allowance for an unconscionable jocularity, there was a deliberate recklessness in Professor Seavey's suggestion that we wipe out immediately the Japanese fleet and a deliberate casualness in Professor Elliott's statement that war was no worse than traffic in Harvard Square that made it hard to believe this was a serious discussion of the most serious of all proposals. The questions from the students were sincere and intelligent, but they were turned aside alternately with facetiousness from Professor Seavey and with a threatening truculence by Professor Elliot, who attributed to his questioners the most discreditable motives...
Professor Elliott...