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...Greenwich in 1900 began her association with another Englishwoman, small Mary Elizabeth Lowndes, who last week remained as co-headmistress. The first Greenwich plant burned in 1923, an event commemorated in innumerable subsequent fire drills. Altogether Rosemary has educated some 1,800 girls from prosperous families, including Mrs. Robert Alphonso Taft of Cincinnati, Mrs. S. Parker Gilbert, Jacob Gould Schurman's daughter Barbara Rose, Thomas Alexander MelIon's daughter Elizabeth and Lady Thornton, youthful relict of the president of the Canadian Pacific Railroad...
...camps, Taft enlisted as a buck private in the Army, got married before sailing for France. Returning a first lieutenant, he finished a Yale law course in 1921, stayed on through football season as a line coach. Back home in Cincinnati, he teamed up with his elder brother Robert Alphonso in the practice of law. Meanwhile his family grew to two sons, five daughters. Busy as he was with the law, Charlie Taft was never too busy to respond to a call for help from practical Christian enterprises. This able, potent, bright-faced member of one of Cincinnati...
...convention delegates. His entrance into Ohio was made for the specific purpose of thwarting regular Republicans' plans to name a favorite son, and thus to deliver Ohio's bargaining power intact at the Cleveland convention. Old Guardsmen went right ahead and picked as their favorite son Robert Alphonso Taft of Cincinnati, elder son of the late Chief Justice. Candidate Borah stumped vigorously in the northern portion of the State, made a loud noise against false-front candidacies. Candidate Taft canvassed the State like a bona fide candidate, although Ohio freely figured that his delegates really stood for Governor...
...child of Roosevelt I stood for election and Ohio gave her some 278,000 votes of approval. Mrs. Longworth has attended six Republican National Conventions, as an interested spectator. Next month at Cleveland she will attend her seventh, as an Ohio delegate-at-large favoring the nomination of Robert Alphonso Taft...
...with a thump, announcing that he would run in the Ohio primaries (TIME, Feb. 17). As an attempt to force a fight on Candidates Knox or Landon, it was a failure. Both declined to enter Ohio after his announcement. He was left facing a favorite son. highly respectable Robert Alphonso Taft, son of the late Chief Justice, shrewdly picked by Ohio's Boss Walter Folger Brown to head the regular Republican ticket. With their candidate strongest in the Cleveland-Akron-Youngstown area, Borah managers will consider themselves lucky to win half of Ohio's 52 convention delegates...