Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: Of all the silly issues interjected into this campaign on both sides, the silliest is the question of Elliott Roosevelt's acceptance of a captaincy in the Maintenance Corps of the Air Service. Let's consider the facts: 1) Elliott Roosevelt is 30 years old. 2) He has a family-as a matter of fact, he has two families. 3) He has abandoned an interesting and profitable job for one that pays him $200 a month, and even in times of peace army life is no bed of roses. There was about as much chance...
...course Elliott Roosevelt could have made a spectacular and theatric gesture and enlisted as a private, thereby accruing to himself temporary praise, but as everyone knows within a few months he would have been offered a commission as would any other man of h.s age, experience and position...
Finally, what has it got to do with his father? The question should appeal to everyone who has a fully grown son. Elliott Roosevelt is an oversize, active and extremely determined man. Should his father have spanked him? But his father is Commander in Chief of the Army. Quite so, but as Commander in Chief, although he may at times make or break generals, he does not make or break captains, lieutenants or sergeants, nor interfere with the decisions of enlistment boards...
...Mitch") Davenport, onetime FORTUNE managing editor, whom Willkie affectionately calls "The Zealot." Others: Pierce Butler, dry-witted, sunken-cheeked Minneapolis lawyer, son of the late famed conservative Supreme Court Justice; "Bart" Crum. smart young San Francisco lawyer; Raymond Leslie Buell, jug-eared foreign affairs expert; blond, sharp-eyed young Elliott V. Bell, former New York Times financial expert. Their routine was agonizing and invariable. One would be given a speech to write. When he had sweated his brains out over it, two or three colleagues rewrote it completely...
...Credited with being the largest single contributor to the Associated Willkie Clubs was blonde & buxom Betty Winsor, wife of Philadelphia Socialite Curtin Winsor, ex-wife of Elliott ("I Want To Be a Captain") Roosevelt. Said Mrs. Winsor: "I am still devoted to Mrs. Roosevelt...