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President Roosevelt thanks Charles Hopkins Clark for the letter, which he has sent to Yale University President Arthur Twining Hadley.
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1907-09-05
President Roosevelt agrees that Commissioner of the Bureau of Corporations Smith should write what he suggested to Senator Frank B. Brandegee regarding the appointment of Walter Chadwick Noyes to a judgeship, to avoid tension. Roosevelt asks Smith’s opinion on the enclosed letter from Arthur Twining Hadley, president of Yale University.
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1907-09-02
President Roosevelt asks Commissioner of Corporations Smith if he can “quietly secure some backing” for John K. Beach, who Roosevelt is inclined to appoint to a judgeship in Connecticut.
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1907-07-18
Vahan Cardashian writes to Andrew D. White expressing his concerns about the persecution Armenians are facing under the Turkish government and his fears the violence will escalate. He hopes White will be one of several other prominent men to form a committee that will weild their power to advocate for Armenian rights.
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1911-10-12
William N. Freeman thanks Frank Harper for his letter. He discusses a possible daily school exercise of a flag honor guard. He recalls a movement to assign a generic name to American soldiers, as British soldiers are called “Tommy Atkins”. He suggests “Johnny Trump”, and hopes that Roosevelt can endorse the idea. He would like to meet Roosevelt and give him a handshake.
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1911-09-20
William N. Freeman informs Theodore Roosevelt about New Jersey’s law requiring schoolchildren to salute the flag and asks for his support.
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1911-09-14
Charles Hopkins Clark responds to President Roosevelt’s inquiry about the note from Yale University President Arthur Twining Hadley. Clark explains that he knows some of the men involved in the matter and that The Courant is not in any way bound to support Senator Frank B. Brandegee’s suggestion. Senators, as well as lawyers, have widely endorsed Walter C. Noyes for the position of United States Circuit Judge. Clark strongly recommends his appointment and says that if he is turned down, it could lead to trouble in Connecticut.
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1907-09-04
Newspaper clipping announcing a dinner given by President Roosevelt in honor of William H. Taft.
1902-02-06
Yale professor and university president Arthur Twining Hadley looks through a huge magnifying glass trained on a laborer labeled “Trust Employee.” However, what Hadley sees through the lens is a “Trust Slave” linked by a ball and chain to “Trusts.” On the ground, at Hadley’s feet, is a piece of paper stating “Dangers of trusts and imperialism. Prof. Hadley.”
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1901-04-03
Puck points to a group portrait of Matthew Quay, standing on the left, Richard Croker, seated in center, and Senator Platt, standing on the right — political bosses of, respectively, Pennsylvania, New York City’s Tammany Hall, and New York State. Puck sarcastically asks Yale president Arthur Twining Hadley why these gentlemen do not measure up to his ideals for politicians.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1900-01-24
Theodore Roosevelt has just finished reading Arthur Twining Hadley’s Undercurrents in American Politics, and he discusses Hadley’s conclusions, particularly as they relate to the records of American presidents through the Civil War.
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1915-07-08
With a series of excerpts from relevant letters, President Roosevelt strongly refutes allegations from anonymous sources quoted by William Dudley Foulke. These sources allege that Roosevelt had planned to nominate John K. Beach to succeed William K. Townsend on the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, but then withdrew his promise to appoint Beach in favor of Walter Chadwick Noyes, in order to secure a delegation favorable to William H. Taft to the Republican National Convention.
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1908-08-06
President Roosevelt was concerned by Benjamin Ide Wheeler’s letter, and wishes that what Wheeler said could be taught to some people on the east coast. He wishes that Arthur Twining Hadley, president of Yale University, had not chosen this particular moment to give honorary degrees to J. Pierpont Morgan and John C. Spooner. Roosevelt still thinks that William H. Taft will be elected all right.
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1908-07-06
President Roosevelt sends William H. Taft two letters, which he says explain themselves. Roosevelt thinks that United States Representative William Kent is a good person, although a bit of a visionary. There has been some grumbling about Arthur Twining Hadley, president of Yale University, awarding honorary degrees to J. Pierpont Morgan and John C. Spooner, but Roosevelt thinks that there is not much importance in this.
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1908-07-03
President Roosevelt is pleased to hear that Felix Adler is going to Berlin, Germany. Roosevelt believes that Adler is helping to strengthen goodwill between the United States and Germany. He asks Adler to send his regards to Emperor William II if he sees him.
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1908-04-08
President Roosevelt tells Columbia University President Butler that he is glad that Benjamin Ide Wheeler is going to be the next professor. Roosevelt notes that Yale President Arthur Twining Hadley has “suffered somewhat” because he has not gotten a personal letter from him this year. Roosevelt asks Butler to tell Wheeler to remind him about it.
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1908-04-05
President Roosevelt shares his thoughts on several personnel matters with Secretary of War Taft, and returns several letters.
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1907-07-02
President Roosevelt received Nicholas Murray Butler’s recent letter, and is pleased at the choice of Arthur Twining Hadley, remarking that “no better man than Hadley could have been chosen.” He looks forward to seeing Butler soon.
(Hadley had recently been approved to serve as Roosevelt professor of American history at the University of Berlin for the 1907-1908 academic year)
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1906-04-26
President Roosevelt thanks Frank Basil Tracy for the slip. He is glad that Yale University president Arthur Twining Hadley reached the conclusion that he did, but cannot follow the reasoning used to reach it. He notes in a handwritten postscript that “it would be quite as difficult to achieve practical results for good in the field of action, by the aid of college presidents as by the aid of senators.”
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1906-02-24
President Roosevelt thanks Senator Millard for the book and says that anything written by Arthur Twining Hadley is sure to be interesting.
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1906-02-24