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...many a notable career of public service began thus. Examples: The late William Howard Taft, Elder Statesman Elihu Root, Senator William Edgar Borah, Senator George William Norris...
...Treasury on the collection of War taxes, later served as solicitor of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Always interested in the legalistic intricacies of taxation, he did special work for the Joint Congressional Committee on Internal Revenue. He is now a member of the famed Manhattan law firm of [Elihu] Root, Clark, Buckner, Howland & Ballantine, specializing in public service and business organization law. For recreation he writes scholarly articles on taxation for law reviews, plays hard at fashionable Piping Rock Club...
Elder Statesman Elihu Root, now almost 86. marched in his fur-collared overcoat into a Senate committee room one morning last week and took a solitary seat at the end of a long table. He had come to explain to the Foreign Relations Committee his formula whereby the U. S. could join the World Court. But the Committee kept Mr. Root waiting 30 minutes. Behind him rose the loud chatter of peace-loving women who packed the room. Mr. Root ran his fingers impatiently over his short grey mustache...
...Elected. Elihu Root, elder statesman: to be honorary president of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness; succeeding the late William Howard Taft, who held the post from 1915 until his death last March...
...judge's erudite views, the Government flatly contended that he had erred, that the Amendment's ratification had been thoroughly proper and legal. Lay speculation thereafter ran riot in an effort to unearth Supreme Court decisions which would bear directly on the issue. Precedent. In 1920 Elihu Root argued the brewers' case before the Supreme Court. According to Judge Clark, Mr. Root invoked the loth Amendment against the 18th only to show that Prohibition was a "reserved" or forbidden power for the Federal Government, but not to question the validity of its ratification. Mr. Root, said Judge...