Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Money and service jealousy were at the root of the dispute. The Army, charging encroachment on its aerial sphere of coast defense, objected to the Navy's use of Federal funds to build land planes and operate them from land bases. The Navy insisted that, for tactical reasons, it needed a land-based force for sea patrol. The rivalry reached a climax in the Canal Zone and at Hawaii where each service maintains a large air fleet almost identical in character if not in purpose...
...Elihu Root, President Roosevelt's Secretary of State. Nicaragua
...Grover Aloysius Whalen, New York police chief (TIME, May 12) and of Pope Pius XI against Soviet activities in the U. S., there were added last week, in a release by the National Civic Federation, a warning and an exhortation from no less a personage than Elder Statesman Elihu Root, onetime (1905-09) Secretary of State. Said...
...flour counter of the nation's chief grocery store, the new building is decorated throughout with a grain motif by Architects John Auger Holabird and John Wellborn Root. The entrance grill bristles with fuzzy sheaves and kernels, grain garnishes the elevator doors, flanking the clock outside stand a wheat-raising Egyptian and a corn-fed Amerindian. Ripe wheat heads were thrust into the hands of visitors on the opening day as they peeped into the main trading floor, 113 ft. x 163 ft., where business was going on as usual in the wheat pit (38 ft. across) and nearby...
...sermon he had offered in return for a night's hospitality. He felt himself to be a pioneer of sorts and never forgot he was a man-although a very young man-of God. He stayed in Pittsburgh for over 40 years- until 1870. He became a root of the growing town, both as a preacher and landowner. He shrewdly bought up land in East Liberty and subdivided it and sold the lots at auction. I have two of these early real estate plats showing the land owned by "the Rev. William Brown McIlvaine." He knew the Mellon family...