Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee on the track of another Hughes project: the high-speed XF-II photoreconnaissance plane, in which Planemaker Hughes had crashed a year ago. Whooping with delight, the committee learned that the XF-II had been urged on the Air Forces by none other than Colonel (later Brigadier General) Elliott Roosevelt...
...General Henry H. Arnold to recommend a new plane to replace the makeshift, reconverted P-38s and B-17s. (Why "Hap" Arnold picked Newcomer Roosevelt to do this job was not made clear.) Over the violent objections of General Echols and his boss, Barney Giles, chief of air staff, Elliott Roosevelt had insisted on the XF-II. "Hap" Arnold put through a $50 million contract for 101 of them, although later he scaled it down to three trial models for $22 million...
Senator Owen Brewster of Maine is holding high his torch, attempting to illuminate the sex, sin and Scotch with which he claims Howard Hughes and his press agent Johnny Meyer enticed a willing Elliott Roosevelt into handing them a juicy war contract. Pin-up addicts, tabloid readers, and desk bound Washingtonians should be duly grately to the Senator for bringing a spot of joy to dull summer routines. The sex-saturated poses of the scarcely clad "Wham Girl" that have enlivened newspapers and magazines are better than Saturday night at the Old Howard; and Hughes' picture, showing him haggard...
Where did the girls come in? All the accused, except the girls, kept mum. Elliott had been through newspaper probes before. He said nothing. But Secretary Krug, a Cabinet member now, had to say something. He admitted that he had attended a few of Meyer's parties. But he denied having attended at least three for which Meyer had him listed on his expense sheet. Meyer, said Krug wrathfully, was padding the account at his expense...
...months before, taking Roman Catholics to task for the same sort of laxity. Now they had to eat their words: two Episcopal clergymen had just married divorcees -in church, with the permission of their bishops. The brides & grooms: thrice-married Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt Winsor, first wife of Elliott Roosevelt, and the Rev. Benedict H. Hanson of Baltimore; Isabelle W. Morrill and the Very Rev. Kirk B. O'Ferrall, ex-dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, Detroit...