Word: elihu
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...group of those favoring the adoption of the metric system is wide and notable. It includes among scientists Thomas A. Edison, Luther Burbank and Glenn H. Curtiss. It includes Leonard Wood and Admiral Sims. It includes Elihu Root, John Barton Payne, Newton D. Baker and William G. McAdoo. It included John Hays Hammond and Samuel Vauclain. It includes Arthur Brisbane and Dr. Frank Crane, and includes General Pershing, who saw the A. E. F. acquire the use of it in France and found it both convenient and not too hard to learn. Its proponents argue for it that no country...
...gentleman addressed was Charles F. Ruggles, timber and salt man of Manistee, Mich. The reason he was addressed, and Lawyer Elihu Root of Manhattan wrote a letter similar to Judge Taft's, was that both writers had read a declaration of the officers and directors of the American Judicature Society in which it was revealed that Mr. Ruggles was that society's conceiver, founder and patron...
...their graves: Hanna, Penrose, Aidrich, Hale, Platt. How deeply the bitterness of some of Roosevelt's fights with them is buried. Cannon, retired far from the scene of legislative battles, remembers much, and Roosevelt's Cabinet? how diverse have been their fates. One sits as Chief Justice; another, Elihu Root, is dean of U. S. statecraft; another, Truman Handy Newberry, has had most discomforting experiences with the Senate to which he aspired; two others, James R. Garfield and George Bruce Cortelyou have retired to private life. But John Hay, Charles J. Bonaparte, Paul Morton, are gone. Swiftly the new order...
There were many comings and goings about the White House. Charles E. Hughes dropped in for luncheon. His beard looked familiar. Elihu Root came for luncheon the day after. His statesmanlike features were just as familiar there a few years ago. Secretary Kellogg lunched there the same day. Next day Senator Borah, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Moses and Senator Lenroot came to call. Newspaper men came and went in small flocks. It was plain that something was brewing, and that it was not beef...
Meanwhile journalistic conjecture cast about for the most likely representatives at the conferences. The consensus of opinion for the preliminary conference seemed to be Hugh Gibson, U. S. Minister to Switzerland; for the disarmament conference (if attended): Elihu Root, Charles E. Hughes, Oscar W. Underwood, Frank B. Kellogg, William E. Borah, Herbert C. Hoover...