Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present follows: Dr. Thomas Barbour '06. Dr. Henry B. Bigelow '01, director, Dr. William Bowie, Dr. E. G. Conklin '26, Mr. Newcomb Carlton, Dr. Benjamin M. Duggar '95, Dr. Frank R. Lillie, president. Dr. John C. Merriam, Mr. Seward D. Prosser, Mr. Lawrason Riggs, Jr. '15, treasurer, Mr. Elihu Root, Jr. '06, Dr. Harlow Shapley, Dr. T. O. Wayland Vaughan '93. The by-laws provide for an increase in the number of trustees up to twenty-four...
Submission of the World Court protocols would have been useless had not elder Statesman Elihu Root last year gone as President Hoover's unofficial representative to Geneva. There he rephrased the U. S. Senate's objectionable "Reservation V" so that it fell more politely and acceptably upon foreign ears. The paraphrase since has become famed as "The Root Formula." It will be submitted by the President to the Senate in lieu of "Reservation V." It amounts to this: Whenever the World Court, with the U. S. as a member, is asked to opine on any question...
...League of Nations' Committee on the Court, anxious to have even temporary U. S. participation, approved the Root Formula eagerly (TIME, April 1 1929). But Senate diehard opponents of the Court hoped the President would keep the matter on his desk for a long time. Last week Floorleader Watson said he would support everything else the President had proposed, but would fight entering the Court as he had fought it since "before he (Mr. Hoover) was even Secretary of Commerce." Senator Moses of New Hampshire, perhaps meaning to give notice of a "concealed" filibuster against ratification, quoted the Bible...
...Elihu Root...
...Peking and establish the Nationalist government he led an army plentifully supplied with Soviet arms, Soviet gold, Soviet propaganda. Once established in Nanking, the Nationalist leaders did their best to forget their Russian connections, but in southern Kiangsi province, through which they first advanced, Communist doctrines took such healthy root that there are today lusty bandit armies which march under Red banners, post Communist placards, preach Communist sermons in the intervals of strictly capitalist Private Looting...