Word: elihu
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...that year, the Republicans had a gala public meeting in Boston, with reserved seats in Tremont Temple. The Rev. Edward Everett Hale presided over a collection of notables which included Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt, and Elihu Root...
True-blue Elihu, We named Yale
...life that plump, periwigged and pecunious Elihu Yale had lived by the time (1718) he dispatched a gift of ?562 worth of goods to the struggling colonial college in New Haven, Conn, was not by any means all light and verity. Yalemen have long suspected this about the onetime Governor of Madras. But being pretty true blue themselves, most have followed the advice of Historian Robert Dudley French, '10, that "loyal sons of Yale . . . not question too closely the sources of this nabob's wealth." Last week, from Warwick, England came word that someone was not only questioning...
...investigator was none other than Warwick's Mayor George Tibbits. A | tweedy man of 51 with a taste for musty documents and authentic Chippendale. Tibbits first started poking into Elihu's past when a local firm of solicitors that once handled the affairs of some Yale descendants began clearing out their files. Some of the firm's papers were more than 600 years old, and Amateur Historian Tibbits asked permission to examine them at home. Some of the boola-boola he has since discovered...
...Papers showing that when Yale returned to England, he brought along four of Mrs. Nicks's offspring as his godchildren. One of these was named Elihu. After Yale died in 1721, the young Nickses sued his widow for a portion of his estate that would in any age far exceed the normal expectations of mere godchildren. "Without wishing to cast aspersions on the character of the founder [sic] of Yale University," says Mayor Tibbits, "I cannot help wondering what the real relationship was between him and Mrs. Nicks...