Word: lenroot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With Lenroot chaperoning the victors and Johnson thundering for the opposition, the World Court rode through the Senate, 76-17. Wilson is dead; Harding is dead; Lodge and LaFollette are dead. What does this tardy victory of the proponents of international cooperation mean? Is it, as Johnson solemnly warned, "the way towards the League?" Is it a sop, alike to the leadership of Coolidge and the idealism of the nation...
...luncheon. His beard looked familiar. Elihu Root came for luncheon the day after. His statesmanlike features were just as familiar there a few years ago. Secretary Kellogg lunched there the same day. Next day Senator Borah, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Moses and Senator Lenroot came to call. Newspaper men came and went in small flocks. It was plain that something was brewing, and that it was not beef...
While everyone waited for Mr. Darrow to tear the Court to tatters, U. S. Senator Irvine L. Lenroot of Wisconsin, affirmative speaker, broached the subject, in part as follows...
Lawyer Darrow then adjusted his thumbs for battle, in the armholes of his vest, and twitted Senator Lenroot as follows, for having grown tedious at one point, anent the Court's organization...
...Republican landslide year. There is no prospect of electing Republican Senators in any states where Republicans were not elected in 1920. Faced with the likelihood of losing several seats, the regular Republicans are anxious to preserve as many of their number as possible-and one of these is Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin. Lenroot is a regular and it is pretty well agreed that he cannot be elected if young Bob opposes him. Hence the overtures to young Mr. LaFollette...