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William Howard Taft had been one of the seven former presidents of the American Bar Association (including Elihu Root) who had signed a petition in 1916 to the Senate Judiciary Committee declaring that Louis Dembitz Brandeis was unfit to serve as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court...
...principally on his own Republican side of Congress, Henry Lewis Stimson runs the Army. He probably lives closer to its high command than any Secretary since Newton D. Baker. Among Army men he is classed with the best Secretaries they have had in modern War Department history: Baker and Elihu Root...
Republican Internationalist. This is something that Republican isolationists have never understood. Henry Stimson belongs to the now almost forgotten tradition of Republican internationalists in which John Hay, Elihu Root, William Howard Taft and Charles Evans Hughes were his predecessors. A large part of his career was in the service of that tradition...
...constantly that he seems naked without a cigar, kept out of the limelight as usual. Unobtrusive, sharp-faced, medium-tall, grey-haired, he has been in the U.S. foreign service for 35 of his 54 years. When he was 19, a State Department clerk at $900 a year, Elihu Root had just become Secretary of State, John Hay's Open Door in China was a reality, and the Russo-Japanese war had made Japan a world power. When young Gauss became deputy consul general at Shanghai in 1907, Teddy Roosevelt was sending the U.S. Fleet round the world...
...merits of the nominees were another matter. Along with Chief Justice Hughes, Mr. Stimson ranks as a leading contender among U. S. Elder Statesmen: a Yaleman, Skull and Bonester, Harvard lawyer, understudy of the late, great Elihu Root, he had not only had a lucrative law practice but had found time to be a colonel of artillery in World War I. Although he did not love the President's domestic issues, he approved his foreign policy. became a croquet-playing crony of Secretary Hull. But at his age, 72, it was dubious whether he had the stamina and vigor...