Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throughout this period, and increasingly towards the end, professors were returning, or announcing their plans to return, to Harvard from wartime positions with the government: Donald C. McKay, associate professor of History, C. Crane Brinton '19, professor of History, Arthur N. Holcombe, professor of Government, and William Y. Elliott, professor of Government. Professor Elliott's return next fall was considered unlikely, however, in the light of his recent appointment by President Truman to the committee investigating the Philippine Islands...
Throughout this period, and increasingly towards the end, professors were returning, of announcing their plans to return, to Harvard from wartime positions with the government: Donald C. McKay, associate professor of History, C. Crane Brinton '19, professor of History. Arthur N. Holcombe Professor of Government, and William Y. Elliott, professor of Government. Professor Elliott's return next fall was considered unlikely, however, in the light of his recent appointment by President Truman to the committee investigating to Philippine Islands...
...Dream. In the words of Caruthers Ewing, Hartford's attorney, the situation "rocked along for a while." After several months of confused dickering, Elliott's TBS blew up. It was dumped into receivership...
...owner of 4,000 shares of TBS stock, in February 1941 Elliott filed a claim with the receivers and collected $33,438. A year later, Texas' Jesse Jones, then Secretary of Commerce, called Lawyer Ewing to tell him that (according to Ewing) "the Roosevelt family" wished to settle Elliott's debt. Lawyer Ewing turned over Elliott's note and collateral and Jones gave Ewing a cashier's check for $4,000. Said Ewing: "The whole thing was closed...
Congressmen wanted a lot of things explained. One thing which needed explaining: why Hartford had dished out $200,000 to Elliott Roosevelt, whom he had never met before. With his sights on Brigadier General Roosevelt, Pegler suggested: "Hartford had a profound respect for the office of President of the U.S. and may have thought it was an honor to be asked to assist the son of a President." With its sights on "all concerned," the Washington Post commented acidly: "The precise nature of Mr. Hartford's interest in making the loan is open to serious question...