Word: roots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Singles.--1, E. T. Herdon 2G.B.; 2, F. McG. Bundy 2G.B.; 3, R. N. Bradley 1G.B.; 4, H. N. Stevens 2G.B.; 5, W. G. Bottlemore 2G.B.; 6, R. R. Thompson 2G.B.; 7, J. T. Moll 2G.B.; 8, C. P. Tenneson 2G.B.; 9, O. M. Root 2G.B.; 10, Stanborough Fernald 1G.B...
...absence of Elihu Root, chairman of the international law committee, Alton B. Parker moved for the adoption of the following resolution before the Bar Association of the City of New York...
...very unwise to declare the League dead." In these words Elihu Root cabled from Europe two years ago, when he was engaged with other leading jurists of the nations in drafting the constitution of the International Court of Justice. This message from the greatest living Republican to the Republican Chairman, during the palmy days of the Harding Front Porch Campaign of 1920, evidently had small effect. For Mr. Harding shortly afterward declared the league dead,--an easy form of attack upon an institution, well-known to journalists,--and fought the remainder of his campaign for the presidency on a definitely...
...Assembly, told me that the League was to him "a big friendly international club". As such, it is the one positive advantage that has come out of all the waste and wreckage of the war. He would be a misanthrope indeed, who wished it dead. And, as Mr. Root has said, if he thought it dead, he would be most unwise. For it has a spirit and determination behind it that nothing can kill, and, taking it all in all, it is one of the most buoyantly living things in the world today
...effective. The Fascisti, having doctored Italy's physical ills, have turned their attentions to its morals, and have formed an organization to attack indecent literature by the same forceful methods used in governmental matters. With ecclesiastical enthusiasm--for Mussolini was a monk--they are going straight to the root of the evil, the authors. What is more, by intimidating also the critics who encourage those writers, the organization is destroying creator and sponsor as well...