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...Constitutional Convention of the State of New York labored for weeks, only to have their works promptly frowned upon by the voters. Time, however, was kinder to them; now their major recommendations have become laws. Last week they celebrated these facts at a reunion dinner in Manhattan. Elihu Root, who presided at the 1915 convention, Charles E. Hughes, Henry L. Stimson, Alfred E. Smith and nearly a hundred others were there...
Wilson Prize. The 1926 Woodrow Wilson Foundation medal and prize of $25,000 were awarded last week to 81-year-old Republican jurist-statesman Elihu Root for his services toward the creation of the World Court.* Why does Mr. Root deserve the prize, any more than the eleven other international jurists with whom he drew up in 1920 the World Court Protocol? He suggested how the judges of the World Court could be amicably selected among the nations. That problem had everyone well stumped. Mr. Root's idea: Let the international mechanism already functioning smoothly to select the jurists...
...constitutional lawyer.' Julius Rosenwald revived my late wife's term of 'the E. J.-Enthusiastic Jew.' Judge Cardoza said I was 'a great civic institution.' My law partner, Samuel Untermyer, called me 'the most prodigious worker I have ever known.' Besides members of my own race, such men as Elihu Root, James W. Wadsworth Jr., Justice Harlan F. Stone, George W. Wickersham and James Weldon Johnson wrote tributes which were published in the current issue, dedicated entirely to me, of The Jewish Tribune. An editorial in that magazine proclaimed me 'the acknowledged leader of American Jewry,' and, like Joshua...
Edward S. Harkness, Manhattan financier: "Yale University last week dedicated the million-dollar theatre I gave it two years ago, with five performances of an undergraduate play. Simultaneously I presented to Yale tapestries worth $150,000, obtained by Elihu Yale about 1700 while Governor of Madras and lately bought by me from his English descendants...
...went to Harrow, but lost no time thereafter in returning to his parents' homeland, where he was graduated by Yale in 1910. He has embraced literature and yachting ever since, is unmarried and free to spend himself upon a third enthusiasm, his society at Alma Mater, the Elihu Club. The secret of writing biographical history, he declares, is a knowledge of the card-index system of any substantial public library. For writing Cordelia Chantrell he evidently added to his historical method a study of fine prose and much thought on the fine temper of his Southern acqaintances...