Word: roots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...memories crowded at Mr. Root's elbow: McKinley's Cabinet meetings in that stodgy second-story room of the White House; the new Cabinet room, later, under Roosevelt. President Coolidge relished these recollections...
...wise achievement, President Coolidge has a sincere reverence. Some day, perhaps not far .from now, Calvin Coolidge may reasonably expect to be himself regarded as an Elder Statesman.* It was with unusual pleasure and a fervent handshake, therefore, that he last week welcomed into his office Elder Statesman Elihu Root of New York...
Together they passed out of a side entrance, followed a brick walk eastward to the White House, lunched téte-a-téte in the sombre State Dining Room. Their talk was of the World Court, the possible U. S. membership therein, and of Mr. Root's unofficial mission to Geneva next month to assist in the revision of the Court's statutes. The President was interested...
Taine believed that many of the troubles which confronted France in the nineteenth century were due to the attempts made to import from England ideas and practices which had no root in the traditions of the country. This was even more true of other countries, which were far less prepared for the liberal regime than France. The force of example was so strong, however, that in almost all countries of Europe the power of the absolute monarchy was broken and constitutional systems were instituted before 1914. Two of the most notable examples were Russia and Turkey. It is quite conceivable...
...Elihu Root who has been everything from U. S. Secretary of State (1905-1909) to Trustee of the New York Public Library and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, accepted an invitation from the league of Nations, last week, and will sit on a commission called to revise the statutes of the World Court...