Word: elders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elder Statesman Elihu Root arrived at the White House, just back from Geneva where, with other famed jurists, he had been revising World Court statutes. President Hoover kept him for luncheon. They talked of Mr. Root's new formula for getting the U. S. into the Court over the Senate's reservation against advisory opinions. Secretary of State Stimson was present, a statesman with an ear quick and open to Elder Statesman Root, who gave him his first law job and later took him in as a junior partner...
...batting of E. H. McGrath '31, who got two singles and a triple, and G. E. Donaghy '29, who garnered a long home run and a single, each scoring men on bases, were outstanding. The individual fielding gem was contributed by S. L. Batch elder '31, who gathered in Cascaddis' foul fly close to the grandstand while running at full speed...
Respect arose from United's prominence in U. S. aircraft, for United is among the four most potent interlocked air organizations, is closely integrated with Manhattan's huge National City Bank of which Frederick Rentschler's elder brother Gordon Sohn Rentschler was elected President a fortnight ago (TIME, April...
With Mr. Morgan arrived Mr. Root- famed U. S. Elder Statesman Elihu Root, who had just reached Paris by easy motor stages from Geneva with his watchful nurse, Miss Emily Stewart...
...Prize. Almost forgotten in the U. S. is Frank S. Lahm, 83, first U. S. citizen to take up ballooning as a sport, first person to give a full account of what Wilbur and Orville Wright accomplished, great protagonist of the Wrights in France. But in France where the elder Lahm has lived in retirement since the War, he is less a recollection. Each year he gives 30,000 francs ($1,175) for the most interesting accomplishment in aviation. Last week he gave the money to Juan de la Cierva, who invented the autogiro (flying machine with vanes whirling horizontally...