Word: 27th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover, with Mrs. Hoover, attended the funeral of Mabel Hunter Richey, late wife of Hoover Secretary Lawrence Richey. From Rock Creek Cemetery the President drove to the Wyoming Avenue home of William Howard Taft. There he called upon the wife of the dying 27th President...
...Taft, Chief Justice of the U. S., Cincinnati-born (1857), Yale-educated (1878), lawyer, Ohio Superior Court Judge (1887-90), Solicitor General of the U. S. (1890-92), U. S. Circuit Judge (1892-1900), first Civil Governor of the Philippines (1901-04). Roosevelt's Secretary of War (1904-08), 27th President of the U. S. (1909-13), defeated Republican nominee for President (1912), Kent professor of law at Yale (1913-21). Chief Justice (1921-30). His judicial tendency: toward a cheerful conservatism, trying to keep-up-with-the times without violating tradition. Outstanding decisions: none. Reason for resigning: 111 health...
...newspaper office, the Times-Star. Neat, small, white-bearded, he was secure in the knowledge that his was one of the Great U. S. Families, for if Lowells and Cabots dominate Boston, it may be said in Cincinnati that Tafts speak only to Longworths. Half-brother of the 27th President of the U. S.. a philanthropist and pillar of right in his community, Publisher Taft dedicated his paper to conservative, rock-ribbed Republicanism and civic virtue. A monument to the old, tried order of things was the Times-Star right up to Publisher Taft's death last fortnight...