Word: elihu
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Were such salaries paid, many men of intellect now preoccupied with the details of business, law or war, could withdraw from active life and lend their minds, unharassed, to the service of human thought-men like Elihu Root, John Hay, Admiral Mahan, Steinmetz. Scholarship would come into its heritage; universities would be dignified. "Our typical 'University' of today would gradually find its place in the new system. Perhaps no great harm comes from assembling these vast crowds of healthy, noisy, young people. Let them enjoy themselves. But why miscall such a place of rendezvous a university...
...Elihu Root...
...great figures were, however, conspicuous by their absence. One, Elihu Root, whose speeches to the Association a decade and two decades ago are now classic, has passed through the portals of many years into a remote seclusion. One, the Chief Justice of the U. S., William Howard Taft, grandfather of ten, pride of his profession, remains vacationing in preparation for an arduous fall, winter, spring at his public post...
...Elihu Root: "Mr. Bryan was a good and kindly man. He was fairly sincere at all times and very sincere on the points where I most disagreed with...
...Nine-Power Treaty related to Chinese customs. The other and more important contained Mr. Elihu Root's resolutions that the Powers agree to respect the sovereignty, independence and territorial and administrative integrity of China, and at the same time agree to maintain the principle of equal opportunity for all nations in commerce and industry. Under these general terms lay specific proposals to call an international conference (which was virtually called last week by President Coolidge) to consider the abrogation of extraterritoriality (trials by consular courts), the setting up of mixed courts, withdrawal of foreign troops and retrocession of leaseholds...