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...Skull & Bones still ranks second only to being President of the U. S. Founded in 1832 by a group of disgruntled Phi Beta Kappa-rejects, Bones is the oldest and most sacred of Yale's six senior secret societies (Skull & Bones, Scroll & Key, Wolf's Head, Elihu Club, Book & Snake, Berzelius...
Oren Root Jr., a youthful lawyer, a grandnephew of the late Elihu Root, started a one-man campaign for Mr. Willkie, whom he had never met. Mr. Root's first step was to mail thousands of statements (each carrying spaces for 15 signatures) declaring the signers' enthusiasm for Mr. Willkie as President. Straightway he began to receive contributions. last week opened an office, announced he had already received 35,000 requests for "declarations." What did Mr. Willkie's Root intend to do with all these fertilizing signatures? Mr. Root had not yet decided...
...John Wanamaker's department store, second floor). The late John D. Rockefeller's heiress (granddaughter), the Marchioness de Cuevas, is a patron for Mrs. David Randall MacIver's American Association for Assistance to French Artists. The Committee of Mercy, Inc., founded in 1914 by the late Elihu Root and August Belmont, has been revived. It helps both French and British civilians with money spent through seven subcommittees. So far raised...
Between 1921 and 1928 Auto-Ordnance, doing a small, tidy business, sold more than 6,000 Thompsons for a gross of $1,330,000. In 1928, however, death came to Thomas Fortune Ryan. Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co. became executor, Elder Statesman Elihu Root the lawyer, of the $135,000,000 Ryan estate. In kindly Pacifist Root's scheme of things, the sale of man-killers had no place. Quietly he put Auto-Ordnance on the shelf. The Thompsons, father and son, had done a good selling job, were on the way to making it better, but under...
...Elihu Root Room, which will serve as an informal reading room, was given to the University through donations by Henry L. Stimson, the Law School Association, and the class...