Word: roots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact the gentleman is so venerable that today the new U.S. Secretary of State?Henry Lewis Stimson?is a man who used to be a junior partner in the oldster's law firm. Therefore last week Nurse Emily Stewart felt a great sense of responsibility as she tended Elihu Root...
...their journey across the Atlantic in the dead of winter, Mr. Root and Nurse Stewart had taken the Italian liner Augustus ("No fog, no ice"), thus circumventing France and Spain, and approaching . Switzerland from its sunny Italian side. As the reward of these precautions efficient Nurse Stewart was able to send her charge forth from his hotel, last week, without even a cold, hale, vigorous and ready to grapple with the statesmen of the League...
...course Mr. Root did not come as the official representative of President Hoover, though he came from him. just as Statesman Stimson went to settle the Nicaraguan situation "from" President Coolidge. He had no title, no authority except a tacit understanding that he spoke for the President. Nowadays U.S. diplomacy is like that; and so last week plain "Mr." Root was greeted with as many courtesies by the League's Big Three* as though his title were "Special Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary? which it is in all but the capitalization, so far as Europe is concerned. Only...
...Jackson, who was chairman of the Sacco-Vanzetti defense committee, and will deal with President Lowell's connection with the Sacco-Vanzetti case. The story is based upon evidence recently brought forth by the committee sponsoring the publication of the records of the case, among whose members are Elihu Root, John W. Davis, Newton D. Baker, Raymond B. Fosdick, and Emory R. Buckner. Besides this article, there will be editorials by undergraduates and news of activities of the Socialist Club...
...called pseudo-professional spirit of the modern contest must be balanced the improvement in quality of the football which is witnessed, as well as its superior meriover former days as spectacular entertainment. The obstacle which has asserted itself time and again in this discussion of overemphasis has its root in the unfortunate failure to modify either of the extreme views in favor of a somewhat more balanced scale...