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...that Mr. EDWARD BOK's prize for a peace plan has ceased to be open to ridicule. Any man from now on who seeks merely to make fun of it will make himself ridiculous. A scheme which has gained weight and dignity by the names and counsel of ELIHU ROOT, JOHN W. DAVIS, Judge LEARNED HAND, General HARBORD, Governor MILLER, Colonel HOUSE and honorable women not a few is no longer fair game for flippant humorists...
...than we have heretofore. In detail, the plan suggests certain necessary and almost inevitable modifications of the Covenant of the League, it acknowledges that we should be a member of the League, and it proposes an immediate step in the direction of membership. The Jury of Award--consisting of Elihu Root, James Guthrie Harbord, Edward M. House, Ellen Fitz Pendleton, Roscoe Pound, William Allen White, and Brand Whitlock--has endorsed this plan as the best, part- ly because it represents the general opinions expressed by the 22, 156 plans placed before the Jury...
Edward W. Bok, retired publisher of Philadelphia, went to New York and traveled up Fifth Avenue to the residence of Elihu Root. Mr. Root handed Mr. Bok a Christmas present?for which Mr. Bok is to pay $50,000, perhaps $100,000. It was the plan selected by the Jury of Award as the best of 22,165 plans submitted for the "American Peace Award...
Seven good men and true, Democrats and Republicans from several walks of life, constituted the Jury of Award: Elihu Root, Secretary of State under Roosevelt, Chairman; General James Guthrie Harbord, Chief of Staff of the A. E F.; Colonel Edward M. House, familiar of Woodrow Wilson; Ellen Fitz Pendleton, President of Wellesley College; Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School; William Allen White, Kansas editor; Brand Whitlock, U. S. Minister to Belgium during...
...Robert Morgan of Washington. "Eddie," Negro messenger to the office of Sectary of State since 1869, has served under Hamilton Fish, William M. Ewarts, James G. Blaine, F. T. Frelinghuysen, Thomas F. Bayard, John W. Foster, Walter Q. Gresham, Richard Olney, John Sherman, William R. Day, John Hay, Elihu Root, Robert Bacon, Philander C. Knox, William Jennings Bryan, Robert Lansing, Bainbridge Colby, Charles Evans Hughes. In recent years, he has presented passports to all representatives of foreign governments, including Bernstorff and Dumba...