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Whenever Robert Alphonso Taft, 50, of Cincinnati, Ohio, has run for office, the electorate has done two things: 1) scoff at him, 2) vote for him. Mr. Taft is no charmer, but he gets elected...
This quality dour Alphonso Taft brought down from the dour uplands of Vermont in the 1830s. Grandfather Taft, Yale '33, looking for a quiet, middle-class town in which to practice law (his goal: yearly income of $3,000 to $5,000), was much taken with Cincinnati. There he lived abstemiously, labored industriously, austerely chose himself a Vermont bride. Fanny Phelps died after bearing him five children (three died in childhood) ; and after due consideration, Grandfather Taft chose happy, loving Louise Torrey, who bore him four sons and a daughter. Second of these sons was William Howard Taft, Yale...
Phenomenal in 1938 was Robert Alphonso Taft's Ohio Senatorial victory over promising New Dealer Robert Johns Bulkley. Mr. Taft was phenomenally dull, phenomenally serious, phenomenally popular at the polls. Prissy, solemn, ponderous Mr. Taft was expected to fade away into the obscure routine of a freshman Senator. He didn't. He engaged in a series of radio debates with clever, Horace-quoting Democratic Congressman T. V. Smith of Illinois. Most people expected Mr. Taft to be skunked. But pollsters found the U. S. public voting for Senator Taft's serious, platitudinous remarks 2-to-1 over...
Died. Doktor Heinrich Ritter von Neumann 66, world-famed Austrian ear & throat specialist, himself partially deaf; of a gastric ailment; in Manhattan, where he had gone to assist in resettlement of Jewish refugees. His skill brought him summonses from Kings Edward VIII of England, Alphonso of Spain, Carol of Rumania, George of Greece, many a penniless sufferer. Only patient he refused to treat: Adolf Hitler...
...Presidential possibilities, Masons are Thomas Edmund Dewey, Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg (32nd Degree), Paul Vories McNutt (32nd Degree). No Masons are Robert Alphonso Taft, James Aloysius Farley, John Nance Garner, Cordell Hull, Harry Lloyd Hopkins...