Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their first child, the Vice President's first grandchild, a daughter, Joan Brooks; in Des Moines. Weight: 7 lbs. 10½ oz. Engaged. Leslie Hore-Belisha, 45, onetime (1937-'40) British War Secretary, since then an outspoken House of Commons critic of Winston Churchill; and Cynthia Elliott, British war nurse captured in France by the Nazis in 1940, repatriated last year from a prison camp. Married. Elizabeth Cannell Bradley, 20, only daughter of Lieut. General Omar Bradley, commander of U.S. ground forces in France; and 2nd Lieut. Henry Shaw Beukema, 20, son of Colonel Herman Beukema, West Point...
...Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, on a recent quick trip to Moscow, was wined & dined by correspondents, who treated him to a $50-a-person supper of zakuska and borsch (hors d'oeuvres and vegetable soup), scalloped veal, etc. When a Red Army captain was invited over from another table, Colonel Roosevelt insisted, after a due amount of casual conversation, that the captain be told, off the record, the colonel's identity. The captain was at first incredulous, then convinced and delighted. Toasts to President Roosevelt, Stalin, the Second Front were exchanged; finally the beaming Russian whispered to his friend...
...Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, second son of the President, was beribboned as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his leadership of the photo reconnaissance unit which took more than 5,500,000 pre-invasion photographs of Sicily...
...turbines for ships are already under construction by Allis-Chalmers, Elliott, and De Laval. The ships will have no boilers, heavy condensers or feed-water problem, can thus probably carry about 10% more cargo than steamships...
...grand strategy of the Dewey campaign. Other advisers, concerned with more detailed and technical matters, include the Governor's smooth, husky executive secretary, Paul Lockwood; his press manager, James C. Hagerty,* onetime New York Timesman; Hickman Powell, ex-expert New York Herald Tribune reporter; his Banking Superintendent, Elliott V. Bell, and Secretary of State Thomas J. Curran, who is also Manhattan G.O.P. leader. Last week, to the delight of Democrats, Tom Curran brought out an official Dewey campaign song, to the tune of Yankee Doodle: Oh, Tom E. Dewey came to town A-ridin' on a pony...