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...time, four years ago, when the Woodrow Wilson Foundation inaugurated its custom of making occasional awards, M. Mestrovitch was asked to design the accompanying commemorative medal. He thereupon designed the Woodrow Wilson Foundation medal which has been given in turn to Viscount Cecil, Mr. Elihu Root and Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. M. Mestrovitch contributed his services entirely without charge, as his personal tribute to the memory of the American President who aided the Jugoslavs to achieve national freedom and unity...
...following persons and institutions are in favor of Herbert Clark Hoover's nomination: Senators Moses, Gillett, Jones, Shortridge, Edge; Representatives Burton, Fort, Albert Johnson, A. T. Smith; Amelita Galli-Curci, Christopher Morley, Emil Fuchs, Henry Ford, Thomas Alva Edison, Emory R. Buckener, George W. Wickersham, Louis Marshall, Elihu Root Jr., George Eastman; Michael Idvorsky Pupin, Will H. Hays; Secretaries Work, Wilbur, Jardine; Postmaster-General New; Assistant Secretaries Mills, Robinson, Brown; Governors Fuller of Massachusetts, Spaulding of New Hampshire, Green of Michigan, Brewster of Maine; the Hearst...
There have been two other recipients of the Woodrow Wilson Peace Award: in 1924, Edgar Algernon Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, 63; in 1926, Elihu Root...
...International Shakespeare Association. Inc., and allowed his name to be used in a drive for funds. Disillusionment came when he found that protectorate was not the fund which is being collected for a Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon, already supplied with an honorary president in Elihu Root, but rather the brain-child of Dr. W. E. Dentinger, osteopath and musico-therapeutist, who is planning a Broadway Shakespeare shrine. Mayor Walker instantly withdrew his name...
...married and with no means of support beyond shorthand stenography, when he determined to become a lawyer. His wife and his shorthand were what helped him through the University of Nebraska. Between classes at the Harvard Law School he was secretary to Philosopher William James. Among his classmates was Elihu Root Jr., under whose father's aegis the Manhattan firm of Root, Clarke, Buckner, Howl and Ballantine was set up in 1912, when the partners were only "five years out of school." The 16-year-old firm now employs fifty-some associates and, a thoroughgoing municipal investigation of considerable...