Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actual operators of the War Department's chief charge* are the General Staff, composed of the Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief and five Assistant Chiefs, professional soldiers all. After that victorious fiasco, the War with Spain, wise Elihu Root perceived that running even a standing army of 25,000 was a task too intricate for the civilian chief of the War Department, of which he was then Secretary. Under his direction the Army's command was radically reorganized in 1903, the General Staff system adapted from the British, French and Germans...
...single term (1909-15) in the U. S. Senate, Statesman Root found distasteful. "I am tired of it," said he, refusing renomination. "The Senate is doing such little things in such a little way." Already he was bent on reshaping the whole world to the cool and reasonable channels of minds like his. He sat on the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, became president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1912. In 1920 the League of Nations called him, as a private citizen, to father the World Court...
...Elihu Root spends the winter months in Manhattan, the rest in Clinton, N. Y. opposite his beloved Hamilton College where, as "Cube" Root, son of the mathematics professor, he was the youngest and smartest member of his class (1864). Alert, he reads widely, keeps abreast of current affairs. But what he thinks, he keeps almost wholly for those of his "young" intimates who are still alive...
...word from Elder Statesman Saionji, 85, steadies Nippon. To Elder Statesman Root, pleading once more for the World Court last fortnight, the Senate and nation turned deaf ears, paid heed instead to the vocabularies of William Randolph Hearst and Father Charles E. Coughlin...
...decision, Judge Grubb trenchantly stated that the evident intention of the T.V.A. was "to pursue the business of a utility." At long last the root of the matter is unearthed. Although it has been clearly demonstrated that private utilities are fairly skillful jugglers of statistics and ideas, they have much to learn from the government. To obscure the issue, and to create a fantastically low rate-base, the Norrisses and Wheelers with the able assistance of Mr. Roosevelt, have written off huge sums as "sinking-fund expenditures" for work relief, navigation, flood-control, nitrate manufacture, and similar projects. This remarkable...