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...good deal of trouble. Circumstances severely limited his choice of members. The Geneva conference would last seven or eight months; Secretary of State Stimson did not wish to be away from his office so long. Dwight Whitney Morrow, ablest of U. S. conference negotiators, was dead. Elder Statesman Elihu Root was too old and fragile for the job. Charles Evans Hughes was out of reach on the Supreme Court. Henry Prather Fletcher, shrewd diplomat, refused to serve unless, it was reported, he was made chairman of the delegation. No less unwilling were Republican Senators to absent themselves from their legislative...
Among the men who have delivered the Dodge lectures in the past have been William Howard Taft, Charles Evans Hughes, Viscount James Byrce, Elihu Root, and Samuel Walker McCall. They were given last year by Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law at the Harvard Law School...
...Pringle has added much new material of his own. Seventy-five thousand Roosevelt letters (up to 1909) were first opened to him in the Library of Congress. The Roosevelt Memorial Association made available a mass of new facts, largely pertaining to pre-presidential days. Nicholas Murray Butler and Elihu Root released their Roosevelt correspondence. Ralph Pulitzer turned over evidence on Panama which the New York World assembled for its defense when President Roosevelt ordered U. S. Attorney for New York Henry Lewis Stimson (now Secretary of State) to prosecute for criminal libel. From Dr. William H. Wilmer Biographer Pringle learned...
Brave doings are toward under the elms of Yale campus, and if the signs and portents deceive not the sons of Elihu will witness a rare battle of books during the rest of the college year...
...convening scientists last week found a large statue of Faraday surrounded by his personal relics and devices built on his discoveries. Prime Minister MacDonald made an intercontinental radio talk in Faraday's memory, as did Sir William Bragg, Senator Guglielmo Marconi, Louis-Victor Due de Broglie, Professor Elihu Thomson. President Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories telephoned his transatlantic respects from Manhattan...