Word: root
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Among all the men available for that place, I think Mr. Hoover far the most competent."-Elihu Root, sometime Senator, Secretary of War and Secretary of State...
...root of the evil is urbanism or metropolitanism. The metropolis grows by attracting to itself the population of the country, which, as soon as it becomes urbanized, becomes barren. . . . The progressive sterility of city dwellers is in direct ratio to the rapidly monstrous growth of the city. Berlin, which in one century passed from 100,000 to more than 4,000,000 inhabitants, is today the most sterile city in the world. The bigger a city becomes the more barren it becomes...
...Labor, Criminal Justice. Conspicuous champion of Sacco and Vanzetti, his close study of the case was reflected in newspaper, magazine, and book form. Mrs. Frankfurter is co-editing the dead men's letters (not the forthcoming six volume history of the case sponsored by J. W. Davis, Elihu Root...
...bigot read the Declaration of Independence. Let him review the Harding and Coolidge administrations for evidence of "buying presidencies." Let him also ask Elihu Root and Chas. Evans Hughes, Republican leaders, for their opinions on the fitness of Al Smith as a governmental executive, and their opinions on his loyalty to the United States...
Married. Wells Root, onetime Theatrical Editor of TIME; to Lin Segal, onetime Science and Medicine Editor of TIME; in Manhattan...