Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of how Franklin Delano Roosevelt helped his son Elliott get a $200,000 loan, and then arranged for it to be settled at 2? on the dollar, was presented to Congress this week...
...Contact. Hartford had told how Elliott Roosevelt, struggling to finance his Texas State Network, Inc., a radio chain, came to him in 1939 and wanted to borrow the $200,000. He testified that Elliott came at the President's suggestion. To prove it to A. & P.'s Hartford, Elliott got the President on the telephone. Testified Hartford...
...said 'Hello, Mr. President,' and I heard a familiar voice, a voice I had heard over the radio many times, say 'Hello, John'; and I told him that Elliott was in my apartment, and asked him what did he think about this $200,000 loan Elliott wanted to make in connection with the radio business, and the President said that he was entirely familiar with it, that it looked good and gave assurance to me that it was a sound business proposition and a fine thing. He said he would appreciate anything I could...
...then told Elliott, T am going to make the loan,' and that the only reason I was making the loan was that his father practically asked me to make the loan, and I further told Elliott that I was not interested in radio and that I was not asking any favors...
Pinch-hitting for the ethereal Elliott, Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, has taken over the Gov 1 sessions...