Word: elihu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elihu Root called at the White House to pay his respects, and stayed a long time with the President. When he came out reporters "pumped" but he only smiled wanly in response. He answered only one question, "Will the Volstead Act be modified?" remarking sagely: "Time will tell...
...parties", in the pre-Volstead sense, dances and social activities, informal discussions and that bugbear of the weeks before Tap Day, the "dope session," at which the undergraduate solemly argues Bill Jones's chance to be tapped last man for Skull and Bones, or whether Wolf's Head or Elihu Club will provide a haven for Jim Smith...
...going to begin. With the help of Secretary of Commerce Hoover it is going to establish a fund of 20 millions to rescue genius from "conditions that stifle independent research." It has consulted 30 college presidents and many another notable?Andrew W. Mellon, Charles E. Hughes, John W. Davis, Elihu Root, Vernon L. Kellogg, Colonel Edward M. House, et al.?and one and all are agreed that time and money should be laid aside to guard and fan sparks of the kind that have lately blazed up into the automobile, airplane and radio. The broadest powers...
...Elihu Root celebrated his 81st birthday in Manhattan by holding no festivities, saying "It's just an ordinary...
...gentleman addressed was Charles F. Ruggles, timber and salt man of Manistee, Mich. The reason he was addressed, and Lawyer Elihu Root of Manhattan wrote a letter similar to Judge Taft's, was that both writers had read a declaration of the officers and directors of the American Judicature Society in which it was revealed that Mr. Ruggles was that society's conceiver, founder and patron...