Word: elliott
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William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, has been appointed Director of the Office of Civilian Requirements of the War Production Board. Elliott had previously been director of the stockpiling and transportation division...
Succeeding Arthur D. White, who resigned in February to resume the presidency of Dunn and Bradstreet, Elliott becomes a vice-chairman of the War Production Board. In his new post, he is responsible for planning and scheduling consumer goods production...
...policy statement, Elliott said that the highest priority must be given to a well balanced war program. Next in consideration comes the production of more of the most vital civilian goods, but the civilian program must not interfere with the production of munitions...
Divorced. Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, 33, second son of the President, now with the Army Air Forces in England ; by Mrs. Ruth Googins Roosevelt, 35, after ten years, nine months of marriage, her first, his second; in Fort Worth. Mrs. Roosevelt charged desertion, cruel treatment, was awarded half of their interest in a chain of Texas radio stations and custody of their three children...
...favored characters is Elliott, the suave expatriate, who dictated from his deathbed: "Mr. Elliott Templeton regrets that he cannot accept Princess Novemali's kind invitation owing to a previous engagement with his Blessed Lord." Another is Suzanne Rouvier, a middle-class courtesan befriended by Larry, whose amiable moral outlook and shrewd achievement of respectability are vintage France and vintage Maugham...