Word: fokker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elliott Roosevelt, aided by a business associate named Grenville W. Stratton, made an agreement with Anthony Fokker to sell military planes disguised as commercial types to U. S. S. R. Young Roosevelt was to form a company which was to receive a $25,000 retaining fee from Fokker. Son Elliott personally was handed four $1,000 and two $500 bills as a down payment and gave a receipt for them. The 50 planes which it hoped to sell Russia were to be priced to yield $20,000 profit apiece, half of which was to go to Elliott or his firm...
...contract was canceled and returned to me. I never received a penny from Fokker for myself. I never acted for Fokker in any such sales. The contract, which subsequently was canceled, had provided specifically that I should not be requested by Fokker or any of his representatives to contact any representative of a European government or of the United States government...
...lower plane is the latest effort to link the White House and the Kremlin. Here Elliott Roosevelt is accused of taking exhorbitant commissions from the Fokker company for the sale of aircraft to Russia. It should interest American voters to learn that while a relative of the President is guilty of treason if he sells airplanes to the Russian government, the owners of the Liberty League, the DuPonts, may be partners in German munitions plants without being one degree less patriotic than usual...
Only three days before a Royal Dutch plane had cracked up in Persia. Six days before a KLM Fokker had killed six in a crash near Amsterdam. Seven were killed in a crash in April, and six died in the wreck of KLM's famed Uiver ("Stork") last December in Syria...
...transatlantic flight. According to legend, Byrd had to hit him over the head with a fire extinguisher when he got out of hand during the flight. Drink had by that time made him a "physical wreck," according to no less an authority than Anthony H. G. ("Tony") Fokker. Acosta's reply was that "Tony Fokker can go to hell...