Word: elihu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elihu Yale is two hundred and ninety-nine years old today, going on three hundred...
Associate Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter and President Conant delivered keynote speeches at Saturday afternoon's dedication of the new Law School Guide Pantaleoni Memorial in the Elihu Root Room of Langdell Hall...
Twenty-five years ago, in the magazine Foreign Affairs (see PRESS), the late Elihu Root, Theodore Roosevelt's Secretary of State, looked behind and ahead and made some observations on history. "There is a general conviction," he wrote, "that there has been something wrong about the conduct of diplomacy under which peoples have so often found themselves embarked in war without intending...
Misrepresentation, thought Elihu Root, was at the bottom of such accidents-misrepresentation, and "ignorance and error [making] wild work with foreign relations. . . . Given the nature of man, war results from the spiritual condition that follows real or fancied injury or insult...
...with one big war over, the world looked like a "community of nations" to Elihu Root, and from that fact he took cautious hope. But even then hope had an acid taste: "The [world] community has grown just as communities of natural persons grow. . . . The neighbors generally must govern their conduct by the accepted standards or the community will break...