Word: roote
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feeling continued high at Niagara Falls, and elsewhere. The Senate, on a motion by New York's Copeland, ordered an inquiry by its Commerce Committee. Commander Charles S. Root of the U. S. Coast Guard left Washington to inquire for himself. "Put them in uniform," said editorials throughout the land...
...time, four years ago, when the Woodrow Wilson Foundation inaugurated its custom of making occasional awards, M. Mestrovitch was asked to design the accompanying commemorative medal. He thereupon designed the Woodrow Wilson Foundation medal which has been given in turn to Viscount Cecil, Mr. Elihu Root and Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. M. Mestrovitch contributed his services entirely without charge, as his personal tribute to the memory of the American President who aided the Jugoslavs to achieve national freedom and unity...
...following persons and institutions are in favor of Herbert Clark Hoover's nomination: Senators Moses, Gillett, Jones, Shortridge, Edge; Representatives Burton, Fort, Albert Johnson, A. T. Smith; Amelita Galli-Curci, Christopher Morley, Emil Fuchs, Henry Ford, Thomas Alva Edison, Emory R. Buckener, George W. Wickersham, Louis Marshall, Elihu Root Jr., George Eastman; Michael Idvorsky Pupin, Will H. Hays; Secretaries Work, Wilbur, Jardine; Postmaster-General New; Assistant Secretaries Mills, Robinson, Brown; Governors Fuller of Massachusetts, Spaulding of New Hampshire, Green of Michigan, Brewster of Maine; the Hearst...
There have been two other recipients of the Woodrow Wilson Peace Award: in 1924, Edgar Algernon Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, 63; in 1926, Elihu Root...
...root of the difficulty lies in the relationship between the secondary schools and the colleges. Our students come to college 'prepared', but with hardly the beginnings of an education. Contrasted with the students in English and Continental secondary schools, they must be rated, age for age, markedly inferior. There is no thoroughness or consistency in our school system. Our schools suffer from that disease that keeps them permanently enfeebled--'credititis', the itch for credits points, units, and semester hours. We are in the midst of a generation of students and teachers obsessed with the notion that organization in education means...