Word: roote
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Since April, the Pilgrims have given banquets for Retiring-Ambassador Alanson Bigelow Houghton, World Court Judge Charles Evans Hughes. Only the decision of venerable Klihu Root not to go to England after all on his return from Geneva (TIME, April 1) prevented their dining...
...Elihu Root D. Civil...
...peace.'' These are the permanent values he has resolved to serve, believing that a synthesis of Hellenism and Hebraism is the hope of the world. Christianity has no place-Pauline Christianity which Mr. Lewisohn identifies with the divorce laws of New York and therefore with the root of his troubles. "My country and its Christian laws have no regard for love or virtue or the creative mind but give their support to legalized malignity and moral foulness if only these mouth the moral saws of the market-place...
Elder Statesman Elihu Root arrived at the White House, just back from Geneva where, with other famed jurists, he had been revising World Court statutes. President Hoover kept him for luncheon. They talked of Mr. Root's new formula for getting the U. S. into the Court over the Senate's reservation against advisory opinions. Secretary of State Stimson was present, a statesman with an ear quick and open to Elder Statesman Root, who gave him his first law job and later took him in as a junior partner...
...Previous Stafford Little lecturers: Charles Evans Hughes, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Grover Cleveland...