Word: elihu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elihu Root...
...great figures were, however, conspicuous by their absence. One, Elihu Root, whose speeches to the Association a decade and two decades ago are now classic, has passed through the portals of many years into a remote seclusion. One, the Chief Justice of the U. S., William Howard Taft, grandfather of ten, pride of his profession, remains vacationing in preparation for an arduous fall, winter, spring at his public post...
...Elihu Root: "Mr. Bryan was a good and kindly man. He was fairly sincere at all times and very sincere on the points where I most disagreed with...
...committee is to assist the League's International Commission for Intellectual Cooperation. Members, whose headquarters are' to be in Washington: Elihu Root, George E. Hale, Charles H. Hastings, Herbert Putnam, Virginia Gildersleeve, Lorado Taft, James H. Breasted, Charles W. Eliot, Vernon L. Kellogg, Augustus Trowbridge, Charles R. Mann...
...Nine-Power Treaty related to Chinese customs. The other and more important contained Mr. Elihu Root's resolutions that the Powers agree to respect the sovereignty, independence and territorial and administrative integrity of China, and at the same time agree to maintain the principle of equal opportunity for all nations in commerce and industry. Under these general terms lay specific proposals to call an international conference (which was virtually called last week by President Coolidge) to consider the abrogation of extraterritoriality (trials by consular courts), the setting up of mixed courts, withdrawal of foreign troops and retrocession of leaseholds...