Word: roots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haynes Will H. Hays Myron T. Herrick Herbert Hoover Alanson B. Houghton Charles Evans Hughes Frank B. Kellogg Robert M. La Follette-Henry Cabot Lodge-Nicholas Longworth Frank O. Lowden Ruth Hanna McCormick Andrew W. Mellon Dwight Whitney Morrow Harry S. New Hiram Johnson Gifford Pinchot Elihu Root William Howard Taft Andrew Volstead James W. Wadsworth Charles B. Warren John W. Weeks-William Allen White Leonard Wood...
...Tweed's heyday, which Grand Sachem Voorhis well remembers, leading citizens of New York were not above working with Tammany. John Jacob Astor vouched for Tweed in a crisis, and escaped three years' taxes. Elihu Root was one of Tweed's lawyers. Many another good name is connected with many another bad moment in New York City's government. No matter how well the present Tammany-ites behave themselves at Houston-and last week they said they were not even going to take a brass band-many a bad moment will doubtless soon be rehearsed...
Died. Clara Wales Root, 74, wife of Elihu Root; in Manhattan; after a long illness...
...apartment house on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 81st street. The apartment house, known to phrase-coiners as the house of the golden doorknobs, was the first one in Manhattan to decoy rich tenants out of their private homes. Among its other magnificent appurtenances, it now contains Elihu Root, Murry Guggenheim, Ira Nelson Morris, Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn...
Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp. set out to make a cinema of life at Yale. Wells Root, able scribe, Yale graduate of 1922, wrote the story. The co-operation of Yale University was sought. Yale officials, however, exhibited coolness. So last week Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp. planned to shoot the film in California, to use instead of Yale the name of a fictitious institution of learning...