Word: roots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward W. Bok, retired publisher of Philadelphia, went to New York and traveled up Fifth Avenue to the residence of Elihu Root. Mr. Root handed Mr. Bok a Christmas present?for which Mr. Bok is to pay $50,000, perhaps $100,000. It was the plan selected by the Jury of Award as the best of 22,165 plans submitted for the "American Peace Award...
Seven good men and true, Democrats and Republicans from several walks of life, constituted the Jury of Award: Elihu Root, Secretary of State under Roosevelt, Chairman; General James Guthrie Harbord, Chief of Staff of the A. E F.; Colonel Edward M. House, familiar of Woodrow Wilson; Ellen Fitz Pendleton, President of Wellesley College; Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School; William Allen White, Kansas editor; Brand Whitlock, U. S. Minister to Belgium during...
...Manhattan. He has had a remarkably active literary life. After his early studies he became a teacher, an occupation which he has followed at intervals ever since. His output has been stupendous, including six volumes of verse, 365 short stories, novels and 22 plays of varying character. At the root of all his work is a scornful yet not too grim irony. To date Six Characters in Search of an Author and Floriani's Wife are his only plays to be produced here...
...Robert Morgan of Washington. "Eddie," Negro messenger to the office of Sectary of State since 1869, has served under Hamilton Fish, William M. Ewarts, James G. Blaine, F. T. Frelinghuysen, Thomas F. Bayard, John W. Foster, Walter Q. Gresham, Richard Olney, John Sherman, William R. Day, John Hay, Elihu Root, Robert Bacon, Philander C. Knox, William Jennings Bryan, Robert Lansing, Bainbridge Colby, Charles Evans Hughes. In recent years, he has presented passports to all representatives of foreign governments, including Bernstorff and Dumba...
...Elihu Root in his first famous case nearly went to jail for contempt of court. He and two other lawyers were in a suit, people against Boss Tweed. The suit was brought before Noah Davis. The lawyers objected to the Judge because he owed his position to Tweed, the man whom he was trying. Judge Davis pronounced Root and the two others guilty of contempt. The two others were fined, but Root was "let off because he was so young...