Word: elihu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brave doings are toward under the elms of Yale campus, and if the signs and portents deceive not the sons of Elihu will witness a rare battle of books during the rest of the college year...
...convening scientists last week found a large statue of Faraday surrounded by his personal relics and devices built on his discoveries. Prime Minister MacDonald made an intercontinental radio talk in Faraday's memory, as did Sir William Bragg, Senator Guglielmo Marconi, Louis-Victor Due de Broglie, Professor Elihu Thomson. President Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories telephoned his transatlantic respects from Manhattan...
...Secretary of State in the last quarter century to go traveling out of the U. S. For the first 117 years of the country's history Secretaries of State stayed at home, conducted all foreign negotiations from the nation's capital. First to break this tradition was Elihu Root who attended a Pan-American Conference at Rio de Janeiro in 1906. Philander Chase Knox six years later toured Central and South America to soothe Latin suspicions of "dollar diplomacy." Robert Lansing attended the Paris peace conference in 1919, Charles Evans...
...without public honor in her own country, Mrs. Reid was chosen, along with Elihu Root, a presidential elector-at-large in 1924. Staunch Republican, she was glad to cast her honorary vote for Calvin Coolidge. Last year she was appointed to the Port of New York's survey to devise improvements in customs inspection. To her the State Department turned, last month, in search of shelter for its royal guests from Siam...
...Weekly demanded a "new and different Yale society system, based on . . . new conditions and on those about to be inaugurated under the eleven-college [House Plan] system." Pointing out that "from a modern class of over 500 men, obviously no selection of 45 (and including the Elihu Club, which has fallen into the system, 601 men can longer be possible on the old basis," it reprinted a "courageous" letter written to the Yale Daily News by Wilder Hobson, a 1928 member of Scroll...