Word: roote
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Constitutional Convention of the State of New York labored for weeks, only to have their works promptly frowned upon by the voters. Time, however, was kinder to them; now their major recommendations have become laws. Last week they celebrated these facts at a reunion dinner in Manhattan. Elihu Root, who presided at the 1915 convention, Charles E. Hughes, Henry L. Stimson, Alfred E. Smith and nearly a hundred others were there...
...orchestra struck up "The Sidewalks of New York." Governor Smith jumped to his feet. "Stop that," he yelled to the orchestra leader. "Wait a minute. Have you the music for 'The Bowery'?. . . Never mind. I'll sing a verse and you fellows [bowing to Messrs. Root, Hughes and the others] join in on the chorus." They did. Governor Smith's voice boomed forth in one of the stanzas...
Then after a trail has been cleared it comes right back and begins to grow up again. The clearing lets in more light for the remaining trees, which grow the faster in that direction. Seedlings take root and prosper. Each winter trees fall across the path from two or three to twenty or thirty to the mile according to the severity of the storms and the local conditions; and once or twice in a generation there comes a storm that lays low whole stretches of forest and obliterates miles of trail. Aside from such storms a trail long maintained...
Wilson Prize. The 1926 Woodrow Wilson Foundation medal and prize of $25,000 were awarded last week to 81-year-old Republican jurist-statesman Elihu Root for his services toward the creation of the World Court.* Why does Mr. Root deserve the prize, any more than the eleven other international jurists with whom he drew up in 1920 the World Court Protocol? He suggested how the judges of the World Court could be amicably selected among the nations. That problem had everyone well stumped. Mr. Root's idea: Let the international mechanism already functioning smoothly to select the jurists...
...lawyer.' Julius Rosenwald revived my late wife's term of 'the E. J.-Enthusiastic Jew.' Judge Cardoza said I was 'a great civic institution.' My law partner, Samuel Untermyer, called me 'the most prodigious worker I have ever known.' Besides members of my own race, such men as Elihu Root, James W. Wadsworth Jr., Justice Harlan F. Stone, George W. Wickersham and James Weldon Johnson wrote tributes which were published in the current issue, dedicated entirely to me, of The Jewish Tribune. An editorial in that magazine proclaimed me 'the acknowledged leader of American Jewry,' and, like Joshua, who succeeded...