Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...methods which have been brought to such a high degree of perfection by the wily Schacht in convincing Germany's creditors of here incipient bankruptcy, is the old reliable plea of a dearth of god wherewith to pay off the adverse balance of trade which is claimed as the root of her financial troubles. Now, no one can deny that Germany, so far as her export situation is concerned, is really in a bad way; but this is the ostensible reason, loud-pedalled mainly for foreign consumption, for her lack of the yellow metal, and not to be taken without...
Birthdays. John E. Andrus (Yonkers' "millionaire straphanger"), 93; Elihu Root, 89; Charles M. Schwab, 72; Temple University...
...delivered a telling blow to Herbert Hoover, whose followers in California have lately been working like beavers to root Senator Johnson out of public life...
Next day the Yale coach story gathered speed. The New York Evening Post printed two columns by Harry Nash who said that Dartmouth hoped to hire Coach Kipke, that some Yale footballers hoped Coach Root would be re-engaged. George Trevor (Yale '15) came...
...concerning such of these matters as may be considered to furnish grounds for a claim or claims in favor of the bank and to commission such counsel fully to investigate them." His stockholders thrilled to every syllable. Then in the same prosaic way Mr. Aldrich informed them that Elihu Root Jr., 52-year-old lawyer son of the sole surviving "Elder Statesman" of the U. S., had been retained to study-and was actively studying-whether Chase had legal ground to do something about the matter. Mr. Aldrich did not mention Mr. Wiggin, or ''former officers" or even...