Word: roots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tumbling.--Won by Weist (H); tie for second place between Dole (H) and Root...
...that can be easily deciphered is worthless-except when it is a law code. A law code succeeds by being easy to read. A new organization, The American Law Institute, met in Washington with the object of simplifying American Law. William Howard Taft presided at the first meeting, Elihu Root was the chief speaker, prominent judges, prominent lawyers, and prominent professors were there to help bring the matter to a successful conclusion...
President Lowell will be a guest and one of the speakers at the fifty-seventh annual dinner of the Harvard Club of New York City tonight. The Honorable Elihu Root, former Secretary of State, will be the guest of honor and chief speaker. Other speakers at the dinner will include the Reverend C. R. Stetson '94 and Mr. Langdon P. Marvin '98, president of the Associated Harvard Clubs...
Accordingly, activities spring up in the University without much blowing of trumpets; if they meet no genuine need, they soon pass into oblivion and no one but their unlucky sponsors mourns their departure. But if they have any excuse for existence, they take root and thrive without artificial encouragement. Those who have a use for them seek them out and profit by the opportunities they offer; while those who have no concern with their purposes need not be urged to support them...
Among the men to whom the letter was sent are President Lowell, Secretary of State Hughes LL.D. '10, Secretary of Commerce Hoover LL.D. '17, former Secretary of State Elihu Root LL.D. '07, President John Grier Hibben LL.D. '17 of Princeton University, President Nicholas Murray Butler LL.D. '09 of Columbia University, Bishop William Lawrence '71 of Massachusetts, former Ambassador to Turkey Oscar S. Straus, Mr. William Allen White, and former Attorney General George W. Wickersham...