Word: elihu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Union League Club, founded in 1863 on the plank of "uncompromising and unconditional loyalty to the Nation," regardless of party?a club which has since grown into a great Republican stronghold, numbering among its presidents Joseph H. Choate, Hamilton Fish, Chauncey M. Depew, Elihu Root, Charles E. Hughes, Henry P. Davison, James R. Sheffield (now Ambassador to Mexico) ?a birthday celebration was held. It was in honor of the forth coming 80th anniversary of the birth of Elihu Root...
...Aida de Acosta Root, wife of Wren Root, Manhattan Traction magnate and nephew of Lawyer Elihu Root, was going blind. Across Europe she hurried, from hospital to hospital, received little help, took ship, came to the U. S., to Washington, D. C, asked for an appointment with Dr. William Holland Wilmer, famed eye specialist. Said Dr. Wilmer's secretary: "You can have an appointment in six weeks...
...greatest "thinking election" since 1896. Through cold and winter weather, Chauncey M. Depew, nearly 91, went to the Pilgrim's banquet in Manhattan, spoke, saying: "What's the matter with Congress? Well, you have to be in Congress to understandd," was reflected President of the society with Elihu Root, John W. Davis, in his corps of officers...
...Among the more able graduates of the Harvard Law School are: Francis G. Caffey, onetime U. S. Attorney; Wilson M. Powell, Treasurer of the N.Y. Bar Association; Charles H. Strong, Secretary of the Bar Association; Elihu Root Jr.; Norman Hapgood; Charles E. Hughes Jr., Greenville Clark...
Last week, these little groups of nobodies assembled and elected a President. They were not all nobodies, however. One of the groups that met in a place called Albany, in New York, was presided over by Elihu Root, who has held many more important posts-those of Secretary of State and Secretary of War, for example, and Ambassador Extraordinary at the head of the special diplomatic mission to Russia...