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...other small schooners in the race -Mohawk, Nina, Pinta - were nearing the coast of Spain, if the ocean was kind to them. Only Nina had been sighted, early in her voyage, by the Cunarder Aquitania (TIME, July 16). Elihu Root Jr., and Paul Hammond are in command of Nina. Their crew consists of eight young college graduates and undergraduates and a Norwegian cook. Said Mr. Root: "We rather expect to get wet. If the Nina runs into a storm, her crew will have salt water in their clothes, their food, their hair and their couch cushions...
...Harding-Roy Asa Haynes Will H. Hays Myron T. Herrick Herbert Hoover Alanson B. Houghton Charles Evans Hughes Frank B. Kellogg Robert M. La Follette-Henry Cabot Lodge-Nicholas Longworth Frank O. Lowden Ruth Hanna McCormick Andrew W. Mellon Dwight Whitney Morrow Harry S. New Hiram Johnson Gifford Pinchot Elihu Root William Howard Taft Andrew Volstead James W. Wadsworth Charles B. Warren John W. Weeks-William Allen White Leonard Wood...
...Tweed's heyday, which Grand Sachem Voorhis well remembers, leading citizens of New York were not above working with Tammany. John Jacob Astor vouched for Tweed in a crisis, and escaped three years' taxes. Elihu Root was one of Tweed's lawyers. Many another good name is connected with many another bad moment in New York City's government. No matter how well the present Tammany-ites behave themselves at Houston-and last week they said they were not even going to take a brass band-many a bad moment will doubtless soon be rehearsed...
Died. Clara Wales Root, 74, wife of Elihu Root; in Manhattan; after a long illness...
...apartment house on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 81st street. The apartment house, known to phrase-coiners as the house of the golden doorknobs, was the first one in Manhattan to decoy rich tenants out of their private homes. Among its other magnificent appurtenances, it now contains Elihu Root, Murry Guggenheim, Ira Nelson Morris, Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn...