Word: roote
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatly amused at Hester May Root's twoddle anent John Coolidge in TIME, April...
Twenty-one years ago a robust Sergeant in Squadron A, New York City National Guard, was riding through Rock Creek Park, Washington, D. C. Suddenly he heard the familiar voice of Elihu Root, then Secretary of State, saying: "By order of the Secretary of War, Sergeant Stimson will report at once, in person, to the President of the United States." On the other side of Rock Creek he saw Secretary Root and President Roosevelt. Plunging into the rain-swollen, swift-flowing stream, he urged his horse across, arrived wet, triumphant. His summons was merely a Rooseveltian method of inviting...
...tense moment when Elihu Root ended. ... I made an inner vow, there and then, that if the Court should find a way to uphold that amendment, despite that argument, I would give such strength and time as were at my command to appeal to the American people to undo that wrecking of our Government...
From Mr. Borah: "I have a profound respect for the opinions of Senator Root; I know his standing as a lawyer and a statesman, but I have a still more profound respect for the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. If the Constitution of the United States, as construed by the Supreme Court, be not the law, then there is no law. . . . "I agree with Dr. Butler that this is not a case which can be cured by the application of political soothing syrup, and certainly the Republican Party would not take a position in the next...
Moreover let not Subscriber Root speak lightly of John Scott Harrison, the only man who ever had a father and a son who were both Presidents of the United States...