Word: elihu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kind of TV law seen on Perry Mason and The Defenders. They rarely touch criminal cases, personal-injury suits or domestic relations. Most of their work is done outside the courtroom, and some senior partners have never argued a case before a judge and jury-a testament to Elihu Root's dictum that "a lawyer's business is to keep his clients out of litigation...
...Underwear. Back in 1913, rich Republican Senator Elihu Root complained that the new income tax statute, a mere dozen pages then, was too complex. "No one understands the income tax law," he said, "except persons who have not sufficient intelligence to understand the questions that arise under it." But the opponents of complexity had not seen anything yet. High tax rates inevitably brought incessant demands for ways of escaping them. Ignoring Lincoln's implied warning that the task was inherently impossible, Congress over the years has kept trying to accommodate every pressure group of taxpayers with a claim...
...Robert Tafts and the Lyndon Johnsons usually do not win at Chicago or Philadelphia." The Electoral College compels the presidential parties to "cater to the urban masses and their liberal dogmas." For leadership, they draw from the ranks of big-city lawyers, Eastern financial executives, academicians (Republican examples: Elihu Root, Henry Stimson, John Foster Dulles, Douglas Dillon). These parties are generally internationalist, favor activist government, are concerned with broad "way-of-life" issues...
...movement to designate the intersection of Bow and Plympton Sts. "Elihu Yale Square" received another setback Monday, when the Cambridge City Council voted down a motion by Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci to take the proposal from the Finance Committee...
...Foreign Correspondent Armstrong was hired as managing editor of the quarterly's two-man staff. (The other staffer was editor and onetime Harvard history professor Archibald Cary Coolidge.) From the start. Foreign Affairs set a standard for excellence that has not found a challenger. In the first issue. Elihu Root...