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Elder Statesman Elihu Root arrived at the White House, just back from Geneva where, with other famed jurists, he had been revising World Court statutes. President Hoover kept him for luncheon. They talked of Mr. Root's new formula for getting the U. S. into the Court over the Senate's reservation against advisory opinions. Secretary of State Stimson was present, a statesman with an ear quick and open to Elder Statesman Root, who gave him his first law job and later took him in as a junior partner...
...Previous Stafford Little lecturers: Charles Evans Hughes, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Grover Cleveland...
With Mr. Morgan arrived Mr. Root- famed U. S. Elder Statesman Elihu Root, who had just reached Paris by easy motor stages from Geneva with his watchful nurse, Miss Emily Stewart...
Excitement is risky for octogenarians, and so last week in Geneva, Switzerland, august elder U.S. Statesman Elihu Root, 84, was kept in bed for two whole days by his vigilant and cheery nurse, Miss Emily Stewart. As the personal representative of President Herbert Hoover, Elder Statesman Root had just scored an exciting triumph. After wrestling with the League of Nations committee on the World Court Protocol for 14 days−with a two-hour nap at his hotel every afternoon−he has achieved acceptance of a formula under which the U.S. Senate is expected at last to ratify...
Quite refreshed after his two days in bed, Elihu Root left Geneva with Nurse Emily Stewart by limousine for Paris. They expect to sail for the U.S. on the Ile de France, famed as "The Peace Ship" The original Briand Peace Pact proposal was brought to the U.S. by Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick on the maiden voyage of the Ile de France (TIME, July 4, 1927); and "The Peace Ship" carried Secretary of State and Mrs. Frank Billings Kellogg when he sailed to sign the Briand-Kellogg Pact Renouncing War in Paris (TIME...