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When the Nobel Peace Prize is officially conferred upon President Wilson today, an American will have received this honor for the third successive time. Theodore Roosevelt in 1908, and Elihu Root in 1912 were Mr. Wilson's predecessors...
...stands is a disappointment. Its strategic value may be great, but even greater would have been the advantages of a "mild reservationist" stand which would have given the opposing party little foothold from which to raise the League as a campaign issue. It would seem that Elihu Root has said nothing at all as only that keen legal mind could have said...
Just whether the plank suggested by the honorable Elihu Root and welcomed by a committee ready to grasp at any straw in sight means anything definite is debatable. Its adoption has saved the impending pother which the formulation of such a resolution would arouse if left to be settled by debate from the floor of the Convention. It has met with the acquiescence of party leaders. When the news of its passage reached the delegates, it is said that a "wave of enthusiasm swept the assemblage...
...Massachusetts, President Hadley of Yale, Governor Wolcott, President Patten of Princeton, Governor Guild and others perhaps hardly less well known. Among the judges who rendered the decisions we find the names of President Seth Low of Columbia, Carl Schurz, General Francis A. Walker, Professor Brander Matthews, Bishop Lawrence, Elihu Root, Edward J. Phelps, Ambassador to England, Judge Alton B. Parker, Honorable Oscar S. Strauss and others...
...want to bring into office men of the best possible ability. No man is so dangerous as one who thinks he knows it all. You remember that Lincoln brought Steward and Stanton into his cabinet, although they had opposed him. Theodore Roosevelt brought to his aid Elihu Root, Hay, and so on. We want to get the best men possible to help us. That is a sound administrative policy. Let's not try to do it all ourselves. We also want a sound, foreign commercial policy, which is something we have never had. Our consulships ought to be filled...