Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Howard Taft had been one of the seven former presidents of the American Bar Association (including Elihu Root) who had signed a petition in 1916 to the Senate Judiciary Committee declaring that Louis Dembitz Brandeis was unfit to serve as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court...
...good shot at a German, found his gas tank near the wing root, fired into it and into the front of his cockpit till his plane started to smoke and he rolled over on a wing and headed for the ground in flames...
...Republican side of Congress, Henry Lewis Stimson runs the Army. He probably lives closer to its high command than any Secretary since Newton D. Baker. Among Army men he is classed with the best Secretaries they have had in modern War Department history: Baker and Elihu Root...
Republican Internationalist. This is something that Republican isolationists have never understood. Henry Stimson belongs to the now almost forgotten tradition of Republican internationalists in which John Hay, Elihu Root, William Howard Taft and Charles Evans Hughes were his predecessors. A large part of his career was in the service of that tradition...
...Secretary of War 30 years ago he followed Root by seven years (and incidentally completed the reorganization of the Army which Root had begun). In World War I, he made up his mind that it was necessary to fight Germany long before Woodrow Wilson, and characteristically put his conviction into action by joining the Army. He served in France as commander of a battalion of Field Artillery, still holds a brigadier's commission in the Inactive Reserve and can still talk to field soldiers in their own idiom...