Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began in the first inning of a four-game series between the rowdy Pittsburgh Pirates and the noisy Brooklyn Dodgers. Umpire George Barr called Pirate Bob Elliott out at home, and got not-too-gently pushed for his pains. He promptly ordered Elliott out of the game. When Manager Frank (ex-"Fordham Flash") Frisch hurled a caustic comment from the bench, he too got the royal thumb. Elliott drew a $50 fine from National League president Ford Frick; Frisch was fined...
...Government favoritism in granting Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. and American Airlines, Inc. postwar transatlantic routes. The protest was polite, but by mentioning Plane-Builder Howard Hughes, it left the door ajar enough to drag in T.W.A.'s president, jowly, hard-flying Jack Frye, and his friend, Brigadier General Elliott Roosevelt...
Hughes, who divides his time and money between films, tool making, a brewery, flying and financing, owns about 45% of T.W.A. stock. Pan Am, with impish innocence, reminded the CAB of this. By nightfall, Washington remembered that Frye was best man when Elliott Roosevelt married Cinemactress Faye Emerson on the Grand Canyon rim last December. Hollywood instantly recalled that Elliott met Faye through Johnny Meyer, a talent scout and handy man for Hughes. All this occurred while Franklin Roosevelt was in the White House, and before the CAB had ruled on the T.W.A. applications...
...Elliott, this was an attack from an unexpected quarter. He had just answered the critics of his financial manipulations (TIME, June 25). He had denied his father had ever "promoted or assisted" his private affairs, branded such a charge as "a deliberate, infamous lie." To the new charge that he had helped T.W.A. get a choice postwar plum- a charge trumpeted on the floor of Congress by Michigan's Paul Shafer...
...Elliott Roosevelt, who rose from Captain to Brigadier General as an Army Air Forces reconnaissance specialist serving in Africa, Sicily, Italy, Britain and France-and whose prewar financial affairs are now being investigated at the request of Congress (TIME, June 25)-won his release from active duty effective Aug. 15. The War Department took pains to announce that it had decided to give him the release before it knew about the investigation...