Word: 27th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people?a body of travelers not self-invited, with their minds occupied by thoughts of society reporters or fashionable dressmakers, but mothers invited by the Government of the United States to make their first and last visit to the graves of their sons in France who fell in the 27th and 30th divisions of the American Army, fighting under British command by the side of their comrades of the British Army...
Fossils. Notable among the Manhattan Press meetings was the congress of Fossils. Founded at the Centennial Exposition in 1876, the Fossils were originally titled the National Amateur Press Association, were 1,400 strong. As Fossils, this year's was the 27th annual reunion. Members fore-gathered in lower Manhattan at the Fossil Library, where musty walls and showcases are filled with nearly 40,000 amateur newspapers, clippings, photographs, relics. With the advent of the linotype, Fossils regretfully remember, boy-edited journalism gradually passed away. Membership in the organization is gained by presenting a copy of a nonprofessional, personally published paper...
Next day, Robert and Charles Taft, sons of the 27th President of the U. S., called upon President Hoover, spent an hour talking funeral plans. Their father had wanted no public display. They agreed that his body might lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda for three hours where the public could view it. Later a simple service would be held at All Souls' Unitarian Church on 16th Street where Mr. Taft regularly worshipped. The sons left the White House to motor across the Potomac with Col. Hodges to Arlington National Cemetery. There they selected an interment plot...
Died. William Howard Taft, 72, 27th President of the U.S., loth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S.; at Washington; of arteriosclerosis, myocarditis, cystitis...
Last week a death watch was taken up before a red brick house on Wyoming Avenue in Washington. Within lay William Howard Taft, 27th President of the U. S., tenth Chief Justice of the U. S. He was dying. For a week his physicians, hopeless of his recovery, waited for his passing at any hour. But against the inevitable end he made resolute resistance. His will-to-live was strong; his affected heart, weary from a lifetime of overwork, was feeble. As his life seemed to trickle away, citizens throughout the land held their breath in sorrowful anticipation...