Word: roots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Buckner L. '07, a member of the law firm of Root, Clark, Buckner, and Howland of New York City will speak at the Law School Society meeting tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House. He will take for his subject "What and Where to Practice". D. P. Kingsley, secretary of the society, will introduce the speaker...
...Committee of Award, chairmanned by Elihu Root and including Brand Whitlock, Colonel Edward M. House, Major General James G. Harbord, William Allen White, has been considering the plans submitted for over a month. Its final decision is to be made about the first of the year. Then a straw vote of the country will be taken on the chosen plan...
...added thereto Mr. Wilson's address to the representatives of those nations assembled in Paris to impose peace terms upon those nations vanquished in the World War; a number of criticisms of the League from the now Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Taft, ex-Secretary of State Elihu Root. These latter, the editor of this book asserts, are " not generally known to students and to critics of the Covenant of the League of Nations." It may be said with justifiable optimism that Mr. Wilson's work in the cause of the League of Nations is well known...
...match of interest, but which showed very little brilliant tennis, was the finishing of the contest between Bondi and Roots, the former winning the third set yesterday 9-7. On Thursday each had gained a set, Bondi 12-10. Roots 6-4. Both players were hampered by the damp court, which caused much slipping. There can be little doubt that if Root's service were of higher calibre, he could have mastered the rather indifferent Bondi...
...Elihu Root of Manhattan, Secretary of War under McKinley, Secretary of State under Roosevelt, Senator from New York, 1909-1915. His diplomatic and political record is unequaled by any of the candidates, but he would probably be unwilling to accept the post at London, since he is understood to have refused it when approached by President Harding...