Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wishing to enter the Army Specialized Training Reserve Program may take a qualifying exam Thursday, from 9 to 12 o'clock, In Emerson D, Elliott Perkins '23, Director of the War Service Bureau, announced yesterday...
Faye Emerson Roosevelt, cinemactress whose marriage to the Franklin Roosevelts' son Elliott has not hurt her Hollywood prospects, was model-of-the-week in her off-the-face Easter bonnet (an inverted oxbow number of artificial flowers which almost hid her blonde hair-see cut). Her mother-in-law, Eleanor Roosevelt, had no new Easter...
...stepped a third leftist: slight, parchment-faced Sydney R. Elliott, 43, who made his mark on the consumer-cooperative Reynolds News, though the Beaver hates the cooperative movement. Elliott lasted as long as Beaverbrook was pouring his immense vitality into the war effort. Through most of the war Churchill has leaned heavily on Beaverbrook. But last month the Beaver decided that the foreign war was going well enough for his Express to pay more attention to the domestic wars, and opened his recruiting campaign for the Conservative Party with a frontpage editorial: "The Daily Express . . . refuses to conform...
...Elliott's place, the Beaver appointed grey Herbert S. Gunn, who signalized the end of leftist tomfoolery with his first memo to the Standard staff: "The chief function of an evening newspaper is to TELL THE NEWS." But the Standard still had one rugged warrior to keep its tattered leftist ensigns flying: famed, impish Cartoonist David (Colonel Blimp) Low, who is not above caricaturing his own boss...
...John Elliott Rankin, Mississippi's demagogic champion of white supremacy, asked Congress to change its custom of calling the nine women members of the House "gentlewomen," instead proposed that they be called "ladies." Quoting dictionary definitions, Gentleman Rankin said: "The term 'gentlewoman' puts the ladies one social step below the 'gentleman' of the House . . . I for one recognize no social distinction...