Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wendell Willkie, "dark horse" of the Republican party has finally struck root in Harvard with the establishment of a Willkie-for-President movement centering in Grays Hall under the direction of David Place '43, rabid supporter of the midwest utility king...
...York the first hurdle that must be surmounted is the legality of the Board of Higher Education's action in hiring the firm of Root, Clark, Buckner and Ballantine as attorneys in place of Corporation Counsel William C. Chanler. The latter declined to appeal the case on the ground that "there was a substantial chance of losing...
Learned Hand '93, Henry James '99, Thomas W. Lamont '92, Frederick Roy Martin '93, Langdon P. Marvin '98, J. P. Morgan '89, Henry S. Morgan '23, James H. Perkins '98, Elithu Root, Jr. '06, the Rev. Minot Simons '91, and George Whitney...
...Oren Root Jr., a youthful lawyer, a grandnephew of the late Elihu Root, started a one-man campaign for Mr. Willkie, whom he had never met. Mr. Root's first step was to mail thousands of statements (each carrying spaces for 15 signatures) declaring the signers' enthusiasm for Mr. Willkie as President. Straightway he began to receive contributions. last week opened an office, announced he had already received 35,000 requests for "declarations." What did Mr. Willkie's Root intend to do with all these fertilizing signatures? Mr. Root had not yet decided...
This past week has brought editorial damnation of tutoring school practices which have taken root at Princeton in the last few years. Success promises to come rapidly in this latest campaign, with almost instant college approval and cooperation. The other programs are slower moving, but even the loudest rumblings of the "Princetonian," that king-pin of the impressive Nassau extra-curricular hierarchy, can't change things over night...