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...absence of Elihu Root, chairman of the international law committee, Alton B. Parker moved for the adoption of the following resolution before the Bar Association of the City of New York...
...very unwise to declare the League dead." In these words Elihu Root cabled from Europe two years ago, when he was engaged with other leading jurists of the nations in drafting the constitution of the International Court of Justice. This message from the greatest living Republican to the Republican Chairman, during the palmy days of the Harding Front Porch Campaign of 1920, evidently had small effect. For Mr. Harding shortly afterward declared the league dead,--an easy form of attack upon an institution, well-known to journalists,--and fought the remainder of his campaign for the presidency on a definitely...
...Elihu Root: "I was appointed to serve on the executive committee of the Committee of One Hundred on Foreign Relations. Among my confreres are Major General Clarence R. Edwards, John Hays Hammond, Robert Underwood Johnson, Samuel Gompers...
...Elihu Root calls attention to the widespread misuse of leisure, particularly among those who have recently acquired it. In a world in which the workman no longer has the joy of "perfecting his works" but merely the delight of pulling a lever 897 times an hour, he must save his soul in his leisure time if he is to save it at all. His difficulty at present is that he would rather lose his soul than his spare time. And Mr. Root says he can't have both...
...code that can be easily deciphered is worthless-except when it is a law code. A law code succeeds by being easy to read. A new organization, The American Law Institute, met in Washington with the object of simplifying American Law. William Howard Taft presided at the first meeting, Elihu Root was the chief speaker, prominent judges, prominent lawyers, and prominent professors were there to help bring the matter to a successful conclusion...