Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...died with his contemporaries. That he is a great man, few educated citizens would deny. But fewer still could tell why they believe him such, any more than they could justify the reputations which poets have given to Spenser, musicians to Bach, scientists to Einstein. At 90 Elihu Root remains the prime U. S. example of the statesman's statesman...
...silenced critics once called Elihu Root cold, legalistic, a man whose loyalties and sympathies and passions were solely of the mind. In New York City in the last three decades of the 19th Century he was midwife-in-chief to the infamous Trusts then coming to birth. He has declared that he was then absorbed in the legal aspects of his clients' problems, only later came to realize their social implications. But Root the Citizen took time from his $200,000-a-year practice to help draft an anti-corporation Constitution for New York State, to help Reformer Seth...
...Elihu Root was 54. at the top of his profession and the hero of such bright young Republicans as Nicholas Murray Butler. Henry Lewis Stimson, Robert Low Bacon, when in 1899 President McKinley let it be known that he wanted a first-rank lawyer for Secretary of War. Someone was needed who could plan and plead reorganization in the slipshod War Department, set up administrations for the colonies newly-won from Spain. Appointed, Lawyer Root did both jobs brilliantly. He stayed on with Theodore Roosevelt and, when John Hay died, he became one of the ablest Secretaries of State...
Lesser men than he were among the seven U. S. Presidents whom Elihu Root has counseled. In 1908 his own qualifications for the Presidency were unequalled. Teddy said he would crawl on hands & knees from the White House to the Capitol to make Root President. Then he chose Taft as his successor. He knew, as Republican managers did again in 1916, that Statesman Root was simply not "available." He was too brilliant. Politicians had long since learned that the U. S. electorate distrusts high intellect and imperturbable calm...
...also mentioned Elihu Root, who celebrated his ninetieth birthday yesterday, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Alfred E. Smith, and William D. Guthrie as opposed to the legislation...