Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taking with him the first draft of his report on the overseas findings of the Congressional Committee on Post War Economic Planning, on which he was a consulting expert, William Yandell Elliott, professor of Government, left for Washington last night...
...Romeo and Juliet, an innocent situation is all gummed up by the old folks-the feuding Archers and Pringles. The Archer boy (Scott Elliott), an Air Forces lieutenant, elopes with the Pringle girl (Virginia Welles)-secretly, in deference to the feud. When he ships overseas, his younger sister, Corliss (Shirley Temple), mixes in the intrigue and is spotted sneaking her sister-in-law into the obstetrician's. Shirley quixotically claims the pregnancy for herself and names her moony boyfriend (Jerome Courtland) as the reluctant father. What happens from that point on makes one of the year's fastest...
...Elliott, Pitts...
Three years later, when Elliott was off at war and wanted to settle up his tangled financial affairs at home, President Roosevelt got into the deal again, by the minority's account; he sent the stalwart Texan Democrat. Jesse Jones, to settle the loan, on which no payments, either of interest or principal, had been made. Jones gave Hartford $4,000 and got back the Texas State Network stock that had been security for the loan...
...annually. And it was settled by Jesse Jones at a time when the ailing Texas State Network was beginning to flourish, with signs that the stock might some day be worth the full $200,000. As it turned out, the radio chain is now a prosperous company, with Elliott's exwife, Texas-bred Mrs. Ruth Googins Roosevelt Eidson, as its president. (She and their children got all of his stock...