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...which surrounds their names. To square himself with the ancient virtues, he endorsed Benjamin Franklin's apothegm that "the way to wealth is through work." To justify the "interference of government in business" he quoted Abraham Lincoln and the G. O. P.'s most famed Elder Statesman Elihu Root. To justify the New Deal's constitutionality he quoted "the great Chief Justice White...
...assurance to business was not that there would be any change in his present program, but that the continued effect of this program would bring results which can justify present business confidence. A subtle effect was achieved by drawing justification for these policies from quotations of Abraham Lincoln, Elihu Root, and Theodore Roosevelt, all stars of the Republican galaxy...
Birthdays. John E. Andrus (Yonkers' "millionaire straphanger"), 93; Elihu Root, 89; Charles M. Schwab, 72; Temple University...
...counsel concerning such of these matters as may be considered to furnish grounds for a claim or claims in favor of the bank and to commission such counsel fully to investigate them." His stockholders thrilled to every syllable. Then in the same prosaic way Mr. Aldrich informed them that Elihu Root Jr., 52-year-old lawyer son of the sole surviving "Elder Statesman" of the U. S., had been retained to study-and was actively studying-whether Chase had legal ground to do something about the matter. Mr. Aldrich did not mention Mr. Wiggin, or ''former officers...
...felt that a simple reopening of the budget by the Legislature was all that was now needed. As to charter reform, he had already, in his annual message, recommended a charter commission composed of Alfred E. Smith, onetime Governor Nathan L. Miller, Nicholas Murray Butler, and Elder Statesman Elihu Root. To the Governor's proposals Mayor LaGuardia had a ready reply, which he delivered two days later with good humor but with equal vehemence: "It is difficult to find a distinction between the conditions of [the bankers'] agreement and any equity receivership. ... It imposes upon the city...