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Gloom, black and well nigh impenetrable, has settled over the ancient halls and stained glass windows of Elihu Yale. They say it reaches almost to Camden. Feline yawps, augmented by the throaty bellows of the Theological Students, rend the quivering air. For on the eve of one of the classic gridiron spectacles of the East, news of a most alarming nature has trickled through to New Haven. (The above use of "trickled" is with deepest intent, as will appear shortly...
...eyes as much as possible like President Hoover, returned to his Palace, waited. At the State Department "grave concern" about the Cuban situation was admitted for the first time by Statesman Henry Lewis Stimson. But, quoting his patron and one of his predecessors as Secretary of State, Elder Statesman Elihu Root (in whose law office he was apprenticed), Mr. Stimson intimated that there will be no "intermeddling or interference" in Cuba by U. S. Marines. If it becomes necessary to send them this will be "the formal action of the Government of the United States, based upon just and substantial...
...last sensational campaign speech in New York by a Secretary of State occurred in 1906 when Elihu Root, speaking for President Roosevelt, charged that the agitation for Cuban independence in the newspapers of William Randolph Hearst, that year's Democratic gubernatorial nominee, had been largely responsible for President McKinley's assassination...
Awarded. To Elihu Root, 85: the distinguished service medal of the American Bar Association, prime honor of the U. S. bar; in Chicago...
...Elihu Root, President Roosevelt's Secretary of State. Nicaragua