Word: 27th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most observers would have been less taken aback by the Republican nominee's moderation if they had previously familiarized themselves with the views of Charles Phelps Taft, public-spirited son of the 27th U. S. President. Before Young Republicans in Topeka one day last December, this Cincinnati lawyer appeared to discuss his civic lessons as they applied to national government. Governor Alf Landon, mightily impressed by the speech, was glad to shake the Taft hand, talk things over. Their minds met. Charlie Taft went home, expanded his speech into a 111-page book, You And I-And Roosevelt...
...mutual backscratching. General belief is that the Civitans take in those who cannot make the Lions; the Lions those who do not make Kiwanis; and Kiwanis those who fail to make Rotary, which is the spiritual father of them all. Last week Rotary assembled in Atlantic City for its 27th annual convention, 10,000 strong...
...National Defense Act of 1917 established a board to investigate previous awards of the Congressional Medal of Honor. The board disallowed all 864 medals promised those of the 27th Maine Volunteer Infantry who would re-enlist in 1863, but given even to those who went home. Also canceled were the 29 Medals bestowed in a moment of patriotic inadvertence on Lincoln's funeral escort. The board also rescinded Dr. Walker's award. No civilian has ever received the Medal legally. Charles Augustus Lindbergh rated one because he had belonged to the reserve air force long before his Paris...
...ahead of Candidate Borah's in the Statewide vote. Senator Borah elected two district delegates in Akron, one each in Cleveland, Youngstown and Steubenville. Mr. Taft carried off the other 47 of Ohio's 52 votes. In fact the earnest, high-minded lawyer-son of the 27th President of the U. S. made such a surprisingly good showing that romantic journalists began to circulate rumors to the effect that Mr. Taft, instead of being just a hopeless Favorite Son, might make a satisfactory Dark Horse at Cleveland...
...period during the year when prominent U. S. newspapermen express themselves from the forum instead of the type font is the University of Missouri's Journalism Week. To Columbia, Mo. last week went 350 guests of the University's School of Journalism to take part in the 27th Journalism Week, the first without the presence of Dr. Walter Williams, founder of the school and president of the University from 1931 until his death last July...