Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side of the canoe. Gently still, the flails knock the ripened heads off the stalks. The rice falls on a canvas cloth or into a birchbark basket; the canoe moves on; the rest of the grain sinks to the fertile mud on the bottom of the lake, to take root and grow for the next moon...
...Martin undoubtedly had in mind reports that while Mr. Root's clubs were doing very well, Mr. Root himself was not doing so well as a campaign organizer. Nominee Willkie announced after his conference with Messrs. Martin, Fletcher, Root, et al. that some bugs had been smoothed out. But he went out of his way to congratulate Oren Root for "a magnificent job." More important, Wendell Willkie pointedly indicated that his campaign will be kept in three distinct channels: 1) the Root clubs, with their appeal to the mass of non-partisan independents who twice elected Franklin Roosevelt, will...
Messrs. Martin and Fletcher did not have such a good time. Joe Martin wanted to subordinate bumpity young Oren Root Jr.'s 600 independent, crassly amateur Willkie-for-President Clubs to the regular G. O. P. organization. Lawyer Fletcher had a plan to get around the Hatch Act's $3,000,000 limitation on national-campaign expenditures by splitting up contributions among various candidates and State, local, national committees...
...town with Wendell Willkie came the three original members of the For-Willkie-Before-May-11-1940-club : 1) Russell ("Mitch") Davenport, gaunt, earnest journalist-philosopher who quit his job as managing editor of FORTUNE to devote himself to this man; 2) Oren Root Jr., young New York law clerk, who formed a Willkie-For-President club on his own hook and $150; 3) Charlton MacVeagh, a G.0.P. contact man who drafted himself...
These had been Mr. Willkie's Farley, Moley, Frankfurter, Rosenman, Howe, Hull, Wallace, Woodin and Tugwell; his braintrust and his backers, working for him-at least at first-against his will. Neither Davenport nor Root knew anything practical about winning votes and influencing people, but they did have faith, and it nearly burned them...