Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been President of the U. S. only six were not, at some time in their lives, contemporaries of Elihu Root.* John Tyler was President when Root was born. Twenty-one more Presidents took office during his lifetime. Last week when Death, as it must to all men, came to Elihu Root, the incumbent of the White House might never have been there but for Mr. Root's sense of duty...
...years ago when Elihu Root, aged 54, was an eminent corporation lawyer in Manhattan, the solace of Boss William Marcy Tweed and Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan, President McKinley drafted him as Secretary of War to organize the new colonial empire, which the U. S. had just acquired in its war with Spain. A year later when McKinley was running for reelection, it was suggested that Root run for Vice President to succeed Garret A. Hobart who had died in office. Root refused because he was in the midst of his job of giving new governments to Puerto Rico...
...that event also, the 26th President of the U. S. might have been Root, whom Theodore Roosevelt called "the greatest man who has appeared in the public life of any country in my time." Instead. Corporation Lawyer Root continued as Trustbuster Roosevelt's Secretary of War and, after John Hay died, as his Secretary of State, one of the ablest the U. S. has ever had, who 30 years before Cordell Hull and Franklin Roosevelt toured South America proclaiming: "We neither claim nor desire any rights or privileges or powers that we do not freely concede to any American...
This week Elihu Root would be 92. From his home in Clinton, N. Y., his birthplace, after services in the chapel at Hamilton College where his father taught mathematics, where he was graduated the year Sherman marched to the sea, he was borne to his grave...
...lands. In the Krakatau group, four new islands were formed from the wreck of the former three. Naturalists agreed almost unanimously that every particle of life, down to the last seed and spore, must have been wiped out by lava, ash, gas and steam, that if life again took root on the islands it must come from outside. A minutely detailed story of vegetable life on Krakatau since the catastrophe has now been published in Leiden by W. M. Docters van Leeuwen and was reviewed last week in the British journal Nature. In 1886, one-celled water plants, ferns...