Word: roots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is, however, a much stronger point against the validity of the 18th Amendment. That is the seven-year limitation as to ratification. It is clearly contrary to the Constitution. I have never understood why Root and the other lawyers who argued the case in the Supreme Court did not raise this point. . . . But it is too late now for this objection...
...full jawed, pleasant-faced, Col. Grant will be 48 come Independence Day. His father was Maj. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, son of the Soldier President. The Colonel was graduated from West Point in 1903, did the usual round of foreign duty, married the daughter of Elder Statesman Elihu Root. He has three daughters of his own, but no U.S. Grant IV. In the War he was a member of the U.S. General Staff Corps, on the official fringe of the Paris Peace Conference...
Excitement is risky for octogenarians, and so last week in Geneva, Switzerland, august elder U.S. Statesman Elihu Root, 84, was kept in bed for two whole days by his vigilant and cheery nurse, Miss Emily Stewart. As the personal representative of President Herbert Hoover, Elder Statesman Root had just scored an exciting triumph. After wrestling with the League of Nations committee on the World Court Protocol for 14 days−with a two-hour nap at his hotel every afternoon−he has achieved acceptance of a formula under which the U.S. Senate is expected at last to ratify...
...Root Formula (TIME, March 18) is a polite rephrasing of the U.S. Senate's notorious "Reservation V," drafted to provide for U.S. adherence only on condition the Court would not, without U.S. consent, render "an advisory opinion touching any dispute or question in which the United States has or claims an interest." As finally approved by the League Committee, last week, this brusque language is softened without emasculation, thus...
...effect of the Root Formula is thus to leave the U.S. entirely free to divorce the World Court instantly at any time after the diplomatic marriage takes place. A novelty is the provision for direct, official communication between the U.S. State Department and the Secretariat of the League−an avenue of communication which does not exist at present. The form of protocol approved last week will now be submitted to the Council of the League, to the 52 states adherent to the World Court, and to the U.S. Senate−assuming, of course, that no previous hitch occurs. Last...