Word: roots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spontaneity in the unprompted sincerity of their respect, betrays perhaps more than anything they say in concrete words. For three months, people have gone out of their way to pay tribute to Charles William Eliot: In his death he proved his right to the title given him by Mr. Root, "the first citizen of the country out of public office." He had not achieved this by compromise. The Manchester Guardian, with some detachment, is surprised that Dr. Eliot won such a pre-eminent position in American national life without displaying more of "the hustling temper of modern America...
...income, employes for work, customers for drinks. Basically, he decided, he was a converter of grain. Grain was the unique feature of his business. The problem was: What could his factories, equipment and men make out of grain? They could and do make "Bevo," near beer, ginger ale, root beer, malt extracts, food tonics, grape drinks, starch, glucose, syrups; live stock and poultry foods from the grain residues; yeast, which is rapidly becoming an important product. His wagon works he re-arranged so that it could make motor truck and bus bodies. His cabinet workers who used to make...
...Russia's desire for the Bosphorus was the root of all the trouble," maintained Professor Barnes. "This strait, her only outlet to the Mediterranean Sea, was owned by Turkey, and for three years Russian played fast and loose with Turkey, with her eye on the strait. Turkey saw through the device, and Russia turned to stirring up the Balkan States against the Ottomans. The Balkan War ended this plan, and the Czar saw that only in a general European War could his ambitions...
...organization of the foreign services on a merit basis. Politicians laughed heartily, wondered who this young Zealot Carr was. Senators Morgan of Alabama and Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts introduced the bill regularly from 1895 to 1905, and saw it tossed aside equally regularly. In 1905 Elihu Root became Secretary of State with a desire to reform the consular service. He discovered that Mr. Carr, then at the head of the Consular bureau, had "a mind stuffed full of ten years' accumulation of calm, well-balanced, orderly ideas for improvement." So Secretary Root and Senator Lodge redrafted the schemes...
...effective good can be accomplished by ruminating upon that feeling. To hide it beneath any casual silence is but to increase it. And that the CRIMSON has no desire to do. Rather is it the purpose of the CRIMSON to get at the root of the matter and attempt in some fashion to eradicate what is at best puerile and futile...