Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hughes took the offensive again. He charged that the investigation's motive was to smear Elliott Roosevelt. He put white-haired Noah Dietrich, vice president of the Hughes Tool Co., in the witness chair. Witness Dietrich gave his version of a conversation with Committee Investigator Flanagan in California last March. He said he told Flanagan...
...think you are shooting at Elliott Roosevelt with a shotgun and Mr. Hughes might get hurt in the process. He [Flanagan] told me: 'We are shooting at him with a cannon.' He may have said a rifle or some other one-bullet weapon. What he was trying to convey was that it wasn't a scattergun they were using...
Lowell House expects to decide on a suitable project when House Master Elliott Perkins '23 returns in September, Maurice M. Pochet, senior tutor of Lowell House, said yesterday. He added that because the dining hall was used this summer no repairs could be made there...
...committee hardly missed him. It had Elliott Roosevelt.† Seated before a standing-room-only crowd this week, he announced that he had fought against the orders which brought him back to the U.S., that he had never even heard of the XF-II until "Hap" Arnold put him on to it. As for Johnny Meyer's expense accounts, they were "very largely inaccurate"; he had not even been in the U.S. for several of the shindigs Meyer said he had attended. Said Roosevelt: "If it is true that for the price of entertainment I made recommendations which would...
...suggested that. But it was hard to remove the gamy odor of Johnny Meyer's lavish attentiveness, which Elliott had still not completely explained. This week the committee had a lot more to ask Elliott before it was ready for Hughes...