Word: roots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through," says Mr. Lawrence. " The name most prominently mentioned as successor is that of Henry Fletcher, Ambassador to Belgium." Lawrence claims that Harvey has disagreed amicably with the President over the World Court. The rift goes back to Harding's campaign, when Harvey disregarded a telegram from Elihu Root, which declared that "it is very unwise to declare that the League is dead." This telegram was sent from Marion, shortly before Harding, then a candidate, made his Des Moines speech against America entering the League...
This is not spoken as a demurrer against the value of such a proceeding. Anything done to straighten the paths through the present labyrinth will be an invaluable service. It was the delay in settling cases which led to an inquiry by Elihn Root and his committee, and then to the formation of the institute. Its aim is not to codify and thus make rigid the common law, but to restate it in terms of the decisions of the highest courts. Even this can hardly be half completed in the ten years which the Carnegie gift will finance. And with...
...masses should be leavened by education, and the men should be taught to live peacably side by side through seeing one another clearly. In the United States the first material development of this idea was the formation of the Committee of One Hundred under the leadership of Mr. Elihu Root. Its purpose, announced early in March, is to bring to the American enter the "facts which form the necessary basis of all sound reasoning upon international affairs...
...dispute of an international character which the parties thereto submit to it. The Court may also give an advisory opinion upon any dispute or question referred to it by the Council or by the Assembly." In February, 1920, the Council appointed an Advisory Committee of Jurists, among them Elihu Root, who drew up a plan for the Court. In December of that year the Assembly of the League adopted the Committee's plan with alterations. This "statute" of the Court was subsequently ratified by a majority of the members of the League, and judges were elected. The Court...
Doubles.--1, Bundy and Herndon; 2, Bottlemore and Thompson; 3, Bradley and Tenneson; 4, Moll and Root; 5, Fernald and G. E. Gilchrist 1G.B...