Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry L. Stimson, former Secretary of State, Elihu Root, Jr., New York attorney, and Dean James A. Laudis of the Law School, will head-line the list of speakers at the formal dedication of the Elihu Root Room in the Law School Library this afternoon at Langdell Hall...
McNamara feels that the tax question is at the root of Harvard-Cambridge friction. In an interview yesterday he described Harvard's mushroom-like growth since 1920 as an increasing burden on a depression-ridden industrial city...
...sweet revenge, because Boss Pendergast tried to block his reappointment as U. S. District Attorney last year. For everyone ever connected with Boss Pendergast it was a stinker. The indictment blackened some clouds already hanging dark over the Boss ever since Missouri Circuit Judge Allen C. Southern began to root out gambling and vice in Pendergastland (TIME, Feb. 6). The Boss had known the blow-off was coming: last month his nephew Jim Pendergast and Police Chief Otto Higgins tramped up & down Washington trying to find some one to call off Maurice Milligan. The day the indictments came down, Culprit...
...subject for polite, Hays-worthy cinema treatment, Sam Houston presented able Screenwriter Wells Root and his collaborators with notable problems. Houston's career as Governor was terminated abruptly when, for reasons which have never been completely explained, he left his first wife and the Governor's mansion almost simultaneously, three months after his marriage. In this picture, Houston (Richard Dix) is deserted by his bride and resigns later to spare her unpleasant publicity. The years when he lived among the Cherokee Indians, who called him "Big Drunk," are glossed over in a few sequences showing...
...skin whiteners; that other of its products eliminate wrinkles; that La Jac Brite Skin Bleach will overnight, or in any stated time, make the skin five shades lighter or that Lucky Mojo, Good Luck Incense, Hindoo Mystic Love Perfume, Holy Oil with Live Loadstone or High John the Conqueror Root and other similar products bring good luck, love, romance, power, life, inspiration, easy money or irresistibility...