Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...article about Headmaster C. A. Elliott of Eton is excellent, but the term "cane" is technically incorrect. Caning at Eton is only carried out by certain privileged boys of the upper school, and is essentially a punishment for delinquencies connected with the discipline of the boarding houses and on the playing fields. It has nothing to do with academic offences...
Portland's reform mayor, trim, grey Mrs. Dorothy ("I will enforce the law") Lee, was getting unexpected support last week in her drive to clean up Portland. It came from no less a person than Mike Elliott, the beefy, tousle-headed new sheriff of Multnomah County, which surrounds Portland...
Once in office Fibber Elliott kept his eye on Mrs. Lee and wondered what to do next. True to her campaign promises, the new mayor cleaned out Portland's basketball and hockey-betting hangouts, had her cops round up prostitutes, close Chinese gambling dives. She even sent her police out to pick up all the slot machines, including those in such private hangouts as the Portland Press Club, which made $50,000 profit on them last year...
Between Mrs. Lee and Fibber Elliott, Portland & environs last week were as pure as the snow which had covered them in the two-week cold wave...
Last week, Claude B. Cross, counsel for Dr. Van Waters, and Elliott E. McDowell, Commissioner of Correction, gave WHRV permission to record the entire hearings. But on Thursday, Rowell told WHRV that rebroadcasting the complete testimony would violate Federal Communications Commission regulations...