Word: alphonso
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...Among the 61 Attorneys General who preceded Brownell were a grandfather of Robert A. Taft (Alphonso Taft, 1876-77), a grandnephew of Napoleon (Charles Joseph Bonaparte, 1906-09), and a great-uncle of Herbert Brownell. The great-uncle (on his mother's side) was William Henry Harrison Miller, an eminent Indiana lawyer. Miller was named for President William Henry Harrison (although he was no kin), then was the law partner, political adviser and Attorney General (1889-93) of William Henry's grandson, President Benjamin Harrison One of Miller's Cabinet mates was Secretary of State John...
...Cutaway. It was soon apparent, however, that retiring Vice President Barkley was not really running anything. The man in charge was the tall Senator in the black cutaway standing front & center at the majority leader's desk. Ohio's Senator Robert Alphonso Taft had been elected majority leader unanimously at the Republican caucus. The only man who had once seamed a more likely prospect than Taft, New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, became president pro tempore, a mostly honorary post which he could claim by virtue of his top seniority (16 years) among Republican Senators. California...
...some letters to me from readers of the Daily Mail of London. There are people in the United Kingdom who apparently believe that President-elect Eisenhower will be sitting down with Senator Joseph McCarthy, walking down Michigan Boulevard with Colonel McCormick, and hanging on every word of Senator Robert Alphonso Taft...
...Candidates' headquarters were open, delegates' rooms were reserved for the Republican National Convention. After a year of campaigning, four years of talking and 20 years of Democratic rule, the Republicans again were going to try to pick a winner. Would it be Dwight David Eisenhower or Robert Alphonso Taft...
...Most Fascinated." South Dakota was almost the last lap in the marathon Robert Alphonso Taft has been doggedly running for at least 14 and possibly for 43 years. In 1909, when President William Howard Taft was inaugurated, his eldest son Bob, then 19, rode down Pennsylvania Avenue in a chugging auto with his sister Helen and his little brother Charles, 11. Charles (now the Republican candidate for governor of Ohio) had brought along a copy of Treasure Island to read, because he suspected that the ceremony would be "pretty dry." But Helen (now Mrs. Helen Taft Manning, a professor...