Word: elihu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan the name of Statesman Elihu Root became implicated in a squabble between one Lawyer Thomas J. Meehan and his family. Lawyer Meehan's son Francis, 26, told a story of how his father had eaten and cracked peanuts while Elihu Root was delivering a commencement address at Hamilton College in 1924. Francis Meehan said his father had "gone off to some drinking dive" during the commencement proceedings, but had returned in time to be "the cynosure of all eyes" and, "solely for the purpose of heaping indignity upon my mother," had cracked peanuts at Elihu Root...
...Said Elihu Root last week: "I do not recall the incident...
General Electric's revered Elihu Thomson was succeeding so well in making small quartz mirrors for telescopes that last week he reaffirmed his promise of delivering a 200-inch mirror to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena) in two or three years. It will be twice as wide and six or eight times as heavy as the Mount Wilson glass mirror (world's largest) of the Carnegie Institution. It will reflect four times as much light and probe eight times as far into space. Consequently, with it astronomers will be able to infer many new things about the structure...
Birthday. Elihu Root, 85, onetime (1899-1904) Secretary of War, of State (1905-09), onetime (1909-15) U. S. Senator, most famed U. S. Elder Statesman; at Manhattan, in good health...
Donors. Among those who have become sufficiently interested in the Bennington experiment to give the college money are: Mrs. Charles Gary Rumsey (nee Harriman); Seward Prosser, board chairman of Bankers Trust Co.; Lawyer Arthur Atwood Ballantine, chairman of the College Committee, Elihu Root Jr. partner; Mrs. Margaret Seligman Lewisohn, wife of Capitalist Samuel Adolph Lewisohn...