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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...
...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...
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...
...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...