Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brigadier General Elliott Roosevelt, who is never out of the news-or hot water-very long, was in both last week. Splenetic Columnist Westbrook Pegler, an old Roosevelt-hater, pulled the cork on a long bottled-up story. There was much of Pegler foam & fume; there was also a muddy brew...
...young Elliott Roosevelt, who had dabbled in other business ventures, dreamed up a new idea: a "Transcontinental Broadcasting System" big enough to compete with NBC and CBS. Through mutual friends, he appealed to John Hartford, president of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., for $200,000 to help finance his radio ventures. Hartford met him, lent him the money, accepting Elliott's six months' note. As collateral, he took something which banks would not accept-shares of stock in some small Texas radio stations (how many shares Hartford could not remember offhand...
...Elliott went back to his TBS, bought $75,000 worth of its stock. Hartford went back to his groceries and his worries over an anti-chain-store law which Representative Wright Patman of Texas was trying to push through Congress. If passed, the law would have cost the A. & P. many millions a year...
...week's end the 2,200-ton destroyer Laffey limped into Seattle's Elliott Bay from an encounter off Okinawa (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). Six suicidal Jap pilots had smashed their planes into her. Thousands of man-hours would be required to put her back in the war. One day, more ships than could be accommodated at repair docks waited in Elliott Bay. Repair work was given top priority...
...event. He discussed it earnestly with Britain's handsome Anthony Eden, who was hurrying back home from San Francisco. He had another conference with ex-Secretary Cordell Hull at the Bethesda Naval Hospital-the third and longest (50 minutes) since he became President. From Brigadier General Elliott Roosevelt (who accompanied his father to Teheran) and from Anna Roosevelt Boettiger (who went along to Yalta), he got yet another fill-in on the Roosevelt policies. He had daily telephone conversations with Secretary of State Stettinius at San Francisco, and daily White House chats with Under Secretary Joseph C. Grew...