Word: elihu
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...bill for the organization of the foreign services on a merit basis. Politicians laughed heartily, wondered who this young Zealot Carr was. Senators Morgan of Alabama and Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts introduced the bill regularly from 1895 to 1905, and saw it tossed aside equally regularly. In 1905 Elihu Root became Secretary of State with a desire to reform the consular service. He discovered that Mr. Carr, then at the head of the Consular bureau, had "a mind stuffed full of ten years' accumulation of calm, well-balanced, orderly ideas for improvement." So Secretary Root and Senator Lodge...
...something big and clean in an international way. Last week Representative Stephen G. Porter of Pennsylvania, after a conference with President Coolidge, announced that he would put before Congress a resolution proposing a third Hague conference to codify international law. Whenever the Hague or the World Court is mentioned, Elihu Root is waited upon for an opinion. Wise, he has spoken...
...Woodrow Wilson. If Manhattan Schoolteacher Annie O'Rourke put the same question to little Isadore Israbinowsky, he might answer, according to the degree of his precocity, Calvin Coolidge or Alfred Emanuel Smith or Will Rogers. Certainly neither the Governor nor little Isadore would be likely to name Elihu Root. They had undoubtedly seen his name somewhere. Mr. Root must have done something or the mighty President Roosevelt would not have said of him: "He is the ablest man that has appeared in public life in any country in my time." And again, a month ago, onetime (1916-21) Secretary...
...autumn of 1865, five months after General Lee's surrender and Lincoln's assassination, that a not-very-prosperous school teacher from upstate New York packed his valise, boarded a train for Manhattan. The townsfolk of Clinton said Elihu Root would make a name for himself- was he not the son of a mathematics professor; was he not valedictorian of his graduating class at Hamilton College at the age of 19? Within a few years, he organized a law partnership of his own. Some people called Mr. Root a "crook lawyer." Mr. Root was not a crook...
...considered proper for ambitious Republicans to ally themselves with the "reform element" of the party. Mr. Root soon found himself Chairman of the Judiciary Committee which was drawing up a new state constitution for New York.* People called it a model. In Washington the name of Elihu Root began to be whispered. President McKinley appointed him Secretary of War; President Roosevelt liked him, kept him in office. Mr. Root became busier than the one-handed piccolo player. He despatched 70,000 troops to put down General Aguinaldo's insurrection in the Philippines and wrote a complete constitution and code...