Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easy to call Professor Elliott wrong. But when a man of his standing ponders out loud the worth of the most promising extant venture in student cooperation and comes up with the wrong conclusions, it is all the more important he be answered...
...done nothing else in bestowing his pre-Christmas gift on the University's delegation to the Chicago Conference, Professor Elliott has made it abundantly clear that much more than the collegiate whims of a few students is involved in the formation of a National Students Congress. He has demonstrated that the clash of political philosophic can be just as important and just as acute in such a setting as the full dress ideological battle being played today on the national and international stage...
Professor Elliott has been observing the political scene for a good number of years, and when he advisors the American delegation to pull out of the International Union of Students right away, his words must admittedly cary weight. In spite of a certain preeliction to see pink nearly anywhere, his judgments can neither be parried lightly nor "ridden out," as a boxer would handle a potentially damaging punch...
Correspondent Eiliott Roosevelt, who with wife Faye visited Stalin's birthplace in Georgia (Russia), made no comment on another correspondent's explanation of how Elliott's conversational digs at the U.S. (TIME, Dec. 9) got back home. The little bird who told, reported inside dopester Henry J. Taylor, was an Embassy secretary and ex-WAC named Ruth M. Briggs, who used to be Elliott's friend back in North Africa...
...become a biographers' favorite in the way Lincoln was. The first books were by his friends: former Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins' warm The Roosevelt I Knew and White House Physician, by Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, each of which was admiring and modest. But Son Elliott, in As He Saw It, and Louis Adamic in Dinner at the White House, attempted debatable projections of Roosevelt's international views...