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With him was Mrs. Stimson, quiet, self-effacing, always loyal to her husband's ascending career. As Mabel Wellington White of New Haven, Conn., the new second lady of the land married Statesman Stimson in 1893 when he was just entering Elihu Root's law firm and long before he became a statesman. In Manila last year she appeared at a state function in Balin-tawak (native costume). Being second lady holds no social terrors for her. She was well-schooled in official society as the wife of President Taft's Secretary...
...thick man, full jawed, pleasant-faced, Col. Grant will be 48 come Independence Day. His father was Maj. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, son of the Soldier President. The Colonel was graduated from West Point in 1903, did the usual round of foreign duty, married the daughter of Elder Statesman Elihu Root. He has three daughters of his own, but no U.S. Grant IV. In the War he was a member of the U.S. General Staff Corps, on the official fringe of the Paris Peace Conference...
...fact the gentleman is so venerable that today the new U.S. Secretary of State?Henry Lewis Stimson?is a man who used to be a junior partner in the oldster's law firm. Therefore last week Nurse Emily Stewart felt a great sense of responsibility as she tended Elihu Root...
...Geneva last week the Opinion of Elihu Root proved to be, in effect, a statement of the conditions under which the State Department now believes it possible to obtain the U.S. Senate's consent to U.S. adherence to the World Court. When this matter was last mooted, in 1926, the Senate produced famed "Reservation V"?considered by most Europeans and by nearly all South Americans as an unparalleled piece of arrogance. While agreeing that the U.S. should adhere to the Court, the Senate stipulated in "Reservation V" that thereafter the Court must not without the consent of the United...
...Gardner Jackson, who was chairman of the Sacco-Vanzetti defense committee, and will deal with President Lowell's connection with the Sacco-Vanzetti case. The story is based upon evidence recently brought forth by the committee sponsoring the publication of the records of the case, among whose members are Elihu Root, John W. Davis, Newton D. Baker, Raymond B. Fosdick, and Emory R. Buckner. Besides this article, there will be editorials by undergraduates and news of activities of the Socialist Club...