Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...operational flights "over Arctic, subArctic and tropical regions . . . over water and uninhabited areas . . . deep into hostile and heavily defended areas ... with complete disregard for his personal safety . . . [often] acting as observer, navigator, photographer and radio operator," Major General James H. Doolittle pinned the Distinguished Flying Cross on Lieut. Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, commander of one of the 12th Air Force's photographic units in North Africa...
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court set aside their conviction and instructed every State to recognize Nevada divorces. For the Williamses, for uncounted* Smiths, Joneses, Thompsons, for Elliott Roosevelt, Barbara Hutton and Edgar Rice Burroughs, a six-week divorce became as valid in strait-laced North Carolina as in tolerant Nevada...
Newsmen in North Africa last week discovered Lieut. Colonel Elliott Roosevelt at the head of a photographic unit in Major General Jimmy Doolittle's Twelfth Air Force. Said Roosevelt's pilot, Major Harry Eidson: "You've got to hand it to Roosevelt. That plane we fly is just big enough for two of us, and he is a big man -so big he cannot even wear a parachute. You know what that would mean if we got winged. That takes what we politely call fortitude...
Last fortnight Elliott read in a Gibraltar newspaper that the Navy's Lieut. (j.g.) Franklin Roosevelt was in a Philadelphia hospital, "recovering from something that happened around North Africa." Other Roosevelts in action: Lieut. Colonel James, who took part in the Marine raid on Makin, now on duty in California; Lieut. John, on Navy duty in San Diego...
...warning went apparently unheeded in Washington until last fortnight. Then Purdue's President Edward Charles Elliott, chief of the Professional & Technical Division of the War Manpower Commission, got a resolution from an official engineering committee for the immediate but temporary deferment of students in recognized engineering schools...