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...United States government negotiated, signed and ratified a total of 97 international agreements, most of them bilateral ones, providing for the settlement of international disputes by arbitration and conciliation. This enormous diplomatic effort occupied much of the time of such eminent Secretaries of State as John Hay, Elihu Root, William Jennings Bryan, and Henry Stimson. The measure of realism behind it may be judged from the fact that the number of disputes actually arbitrated in subsequent years in connection with these treaties was exactly two, and for these acts of arbitration, the treaties themselves were in no way necessary...
...Principal Elihu Oshinsky stopped the prayers in keeping with the Supreme Court's decisions against compulsory religious exercises in public schools. Appalled, 15 parents-Protestant, Catholic and Jewish-organized PRAY (Prayer Rights for American Youth) and sued in federal court, claiming that their tots had a constitutional right to "voluntary" school expression of "their love and affection for Almighty...
...that is a new policy, it would come as a surprise to every American statesman, going back to James Monroe. For at its basis lies the sovereign right, defended by Americans of all decades of self-protection. It was perhaps best'expressed by a great Secretary of State, Elihu Root, who wrote in 1914: "it is well understood that the exercise' of the right of self-protection may, and frequently does, extend in its effect beyond the limits of the territorial jurisdiction the state exercising it ... [It is] the right of every sovereign state to protect itself...
...others: Theodore Roosevelt, 1906; Elihu Root, 1912; Woodrow Wilson, 1919; Charles G. Dawes, 1925; Frank B. Kellogg (Calvin Coolidge's Secretary of State), 1929; Nicholas Murray Butler and Jane Addams, 1931; Cordell Hull, 1945; Evangelist John R. Mott and Pacifist Emily G. Balch, 1946; Dr. Ralph Bunche, 1950; Gen. George C. Marshall...
...Yale institution, the eight secret senior societies. More and more students simply do not care to join. The oldest society, Skull and Bones, in recent years has had trouble finding 15 top juniors willing to join, while one of the newest, Manuscript, is popular, and proudly intellectual. Another society, Elihu, has won prestige by shedding some of its Edwardian ritual and emphasizing serious discussion. The most remarkable departure in Yale societies, however, is the fact that one of the estimated ten "underground" societies-underground because their membership and place of meeting are secret-is coed. It is called Vaya, perhaps...