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...Political Party," and "Public Opinion," etc.-Professor Graves reprints articles by competent observers. Walter Lippmann, chief editorial writer for the New York World, is the most quoted man in the book. Others are Sigmund Freud, John Broadus Watson, Otto Hermann Kahn, Bruce Barton, Ivy Ledbetter Lee, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Elihu Root, Charles Evans Hughes, Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Oswald Garrison Villard, Clinton Wallace (Mirrors) Gilbert, William Bennett Munro, and several dozen more...
William Collins Whitney was his tutor in Wall Street and the first of his grand associates. At the time when Manhattan light and transit interests were consolidated, he became the ally of Jay Gould, Samuel J. Tilden, P. A. B. Widener, and had as counsel, Paul Drenner Cravath and Elihu Root. He helped elect a Mayor of New York, and did more than anyone else to secure President Cleveland a second term in the White House. He fought the Seaboard Air Line Railway until he beat it and he helped launch the Southern Railway. In one of his most notable...
...Beth-Shemesh, Dr. Elihu Grant of Haverford College has found jugs and vases which represent a bronze age culture...
...aroused from bed to digress on international law. It was held "unnecessary to disturb Mr. Bryan." In the tense crescendo of feeling which led to the War, Mr. Lansing succeeded Mr. Bryan, was shrewd, logical, firm. He squashed propaganda, refused to be gulled by German Ambassador von Bernstorff. Elihu Root remarked an improvement in state papers...
...apparatus has a 100-inch reflecting mirror. The new one, to be done in three years, will double the astronomer's vision, quadruple the amount of light that at present can be caught from the stars. The great mirror, about 17 feet in diameter, is possible because Professor Elihu Thomson of the General Electric Co. has learned how to fuse quartz into great discs that will not crack, nor warp with heat...