Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surrounds their names. To square himself with the ancient virtues, he endorsed Benjamin Franklin's apothegm that "the way to wealth is through work." To justify the "interference of government in business" he quoted Abraham Lincoln and the G. O. P.'s most famed Elder Statesman Elihu Root. To justify the New Deal's constitutionality he quoted "the great Chief Justice White...
...County government should be abolished lock, stock, and barrel, root and branch," declared Arthur N. Holcombe '09, professor of Government, in a vehement statement made yesterday. He explained that the duties now administered by the counties "should be distributed among the various State departments...
...assurance to business was not that there would be any change in his present program, but that the continued effect of this program would bring results which can justify present business confidence. A subtle effect was achieved by drawing justification for these policies from quotations of Abraham Lincoln, Elihu Root, and Theodore Roosevelt, all stars of the Republican galaxy...
...your issue of Sept. 10 on p. 10 under the heading Money, referring to a shipment of gold bullion from San Francisco to Denver mint, appears the statement, "each mail truck carried one ton of the root of all evil...
...original phrase referring to money and the root of all evil reads slightly differently and may be found in I Timothy 6:10 as follows: "The love of money is the root of all evil...