Word: roots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began crossing water at the behest of Presidents 23 years ago in Rock Creek Park, Washington. There he was riding on the bridle path one drizzly afternoon when he heard his name imperiously called from across the creek. The caller was Mr. Stimson's Manhattan law chief, Elihu Root, then Secretary of State. out for an airing with President Roosevelt. Sergeant Stimson of Squadron A. N. Y. National Guard, spurred his horse over the swollen stream, nearly foundered in the middle, clambered up the slippery bank opposite, gave a mud-bespattered salute, reported for duty. President Roosevelt asked...
...principal staff writers: Manfred Gottfried, John S. Martin, T. J. C. Martyn, Wells Root, John A. Thomas. To get circulation: Roy E. Larsen, young banker. To get advertising: Robert L. Johnson, young advertising agency...
...Root went away the President must have noticed that his step was like a girl's, his slender shoulders unbroken by time. Newsgatherers flocked about the departing Elder Statesman. Did he think, they asked, the World's Court rules could be so changed as to insure American membership...
Answered Mr. Root: "I am not a prophet or the son of a prophet...
...Root is 84, Mr. Coolidge 56. The late great Boies Penrose used to insist that no man under 80 was eligible to Elder Statesmanship...