Word: roote
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Institute of International Law meets at Briarcliff Manor, N. Y., as guests of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Speaker: Elihu Root...
...Elihu Root Jr. will be Toastmaster and approximately 175 are expected to be present. Among these will be five of the editors from the board that founded the Review...
...TIME, Sept. 9), a football game between the University of Mexico and the Club de Sportivo. The President's wife went too and. with the cloudy enthusiasm proper to all female football spectators, was heard to cry: "Que Emocien!" ("How thrilling!"), the day after the game, Reginald Root, Yale '25, University of Mexico Coach, was called again into the presidential presence, to hear these gratifying words: "Football appeals to me more than any sport. . . . Our young men are virile and will soon learn to play well." Further, President Gil urged a contest between the University of Havana...
...press refused to take the Secretary of State's first-personal pronouns seriously. It headlined "Hoover Advocates U. S. Court Entry," "Hoover Takes World Court Plan of Root." Seasoned Correspondent Clinton W. Gilbert took occasion to remark: "Mr. Hoover is not the kind of executive who turns over problems of his administration to subordinates." If these disrespectful remarks "got the Sec retary's goat"* he made no sign, allowed his announcement to pass as a declaration that one of Herbert Hoover's policies would be to put the U. S. into the World Court...
...commission representing the World Court Powers and authorized by the Assembly of the League formally assented to the so-called "Root Formula" under which the U. S. is expected to adhere to the Court at long last (see p. 12). President Hoover sent famed Jurist Root unofficially to Geneva last spring, and he remained there three weeks (TIME, March 18, et seq.), dickering with League and Court statesmen over mutually satisfactory terms of U. S. adherence. As finally drafted and approved the "Root Formula" will permit the U. S. to become one of the Court Powers under an elaborate reservation...