Word: roots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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RESPECTFULLY SUGGEST IT IS YOUR PATRIOTIC DUTY TO CALL SPECIAL SESSION OF CONGRESS BEGINNING SATURDAY, OCT. 4, SO THE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS MAY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SNEAK OUT TO SEE WALTER JOHNSON MAKE BASEBALL HISTORY. CANNOT SPEAK FOR NEW YORK DELEGATION, BUT HEREBY PLEDGE ALL OTHERS TO ROOT FOR WASHINGTON AND SERVE WITHOUT PAY OR TRAVELING EXPENSES...
...bench jointly. At Washington, D. C., the Navy Department announced the establishment, at George Washington University and at St. John's College (Annapolis, Md.), of naval reserve officers' classes, the first of their kind in the U. S. in peace time. At Clinton, N. Y.-Elihu Root, Hamilton '64, patriarch of U. S. law, delivered his annual oration to the students of Hamilton College (111 years old). Mr. Root holds the Chair of Hamilton's Board of Trustees. Said he: "Cultivate your taste to receive joy from a thing of beauty; cultivate your powers...
Peace again. He slipped back to be a Brigadier General in the Regular Army and was sent to the Philippines, where he campaigned against the natives. On his return from the Islands, he was made a Major General and selected by Secretary of War Elihu Root to be President of the War College. In 1904, aged 64, then a Lieutenant General, he was automatically retired...
...many years Elihu Root has been generally spoken of as the foremost international lawyer in the U. S. Mr. Root, as a member of the Alaskan boundary Tribunal (1903), as U. S. Secretary of State in President Roosevelt's cabinet (1905-1909), as counsel for the U. S. in the North Atlantic Fisheries Arbitration (1910), as a member of the Hague Tribunal since 1910, as one of the Commission of International Jurists which, on invitation of the League, reported the plan for the World Court (established 1921), as Commissioner Plenipotentiary for the U. S. at the Washington Arms Limitation...
...Congress; he held a long conference concerning it with Secretary Mellon; then carried it away for study during a week-end trip aboard the Mayflower. On returning he affixed his signature to the bill, condemning it at the same time as tax reduction but not tax reform. ¶Elihu Root called at the White House and was closeted with the Chief Executive. It was guessed that they discussed proposals for the U. S. entry into the World Court. ¶Mrs. Coolidge gave her third garden party in a heavy rainstorm. The party was held indoors and on the porticos...