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...public utterances -your industry has provided a simple remedy in the shape of a little knob. . . I only wish that all other matters could be dispensed with so easily." Elected an honorary life member of the New York Evening Sun's Sun Club was Elder Statesman Elihu Root, 88. onetime (1905-09) Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize Winner (1912). onetime Sun dramatic critic, onetime Sun attorney. He accepted a .silver card of membership, commented: "This makes me a bimetallist...
...late as 1921, Hon. Charles E. Hughes, also onetime president of the A.B.A., appeared in the U. S. Supreme Court in behalf of a client convicted in the Federal courts of Michigan. Hon. Elihu Root, also a former president of the A.B.A. in his youth, did not hesitate to appear in the defense of criminal cases, when he felt it necessary...
...Eight years later, when Sullivan was world's champion, Muldoon trained him at his farm in Belfast, N. Y., curbed his drinking with a baseball bat. In 1900 Muldoon opened his famed Hygienic Institute at Purchase, N Y., where many a celebrity, including Theodore Roosevelt, Chauncey Depew, Elihu Root and Elbert Hubbard, went to be reconditioned. His chief gifts to athletics were the medicine ball and the shower bath. He and Gene Tunney annually exchanged telegrams on their mutual birthday...
...time, each hunting a certain man. When the senior found his junior he would slap him on the back and bark, "Go to your room!" Such was Yale's "Tap Day." when the four secret senior societies (Skull & Bones, Scroll & Key, Wolf's Head, Elihu Club) chose members. A distinctly grim overtone accompanied the proceedings-the chagrin and bitterness of men who hoped they would be wanted and were...
Birthdays. Inventor Elihu Thomson (80), Andrew William Mellon (78), Associate Justice George Sutherland...