Word: roots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Taft was elected, he was appointed Minister to Japan. He never got there. Secretary Knox accused him of " indiscretions " in interviews with the press, and Mr. Taft requested his resignation before he sailed. In 1912 Mr. Crane campaigned vigorously for Woodrow Wilson. After that he served on the Root mission to Russia, and on missions to the Near East. In 1920 he was made Minister to China, and served until President Harding took office. He still maintains an interest in the Near East. His latest plan is to send American professors to Turkey to reorganize the Turkish school system...
Good Programs Get Scarcer- Money the Root of the Evil...
...lives from youth to age. Oddities of temperament, accidents, wives interrupted the friendship?no theatrical Damon-and-Pythias sacrifices fell to the lot of either, exactly? but the friendship endured. Why, precisely ? Neither could have defined all the reasons for it. Neither tried. But it was the root of their lives. An excellent novel, original in theme...
Next day the President bad the pleasure of driving the electric locomotive of his train for twelve miles- down the steep grade of the St. Joseph River and the fire-charred slopes of the Bitter Root Mountains...
Among the long list of Presidential possibilities picked by Democratic politicians appeared (with one or two votes each) many unknowns and not a few Republicans. Among the Republicans were: Frank O. Lowden, Elihu Root, Hiram Johnson, R. M. La Follette, William E. Borah, Arthur Capper, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Albert J. Beveridge, James C. Couzens...