Word: alphonsos
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...Cincinnati, several days after the election, Senator Taft tried on a new, grey-blue fedora-a present from his office staff to replace the old, grey good-luck hat which he had worn in his Ohio campaign. The new fedora was symbolic; politically speaking, Robert Alphonso Taft also wore a new hat. When the 82nd Congress convenes, no man in the U.S., including Truman, will exercise more influence on legislation...
Including a Tomato. Even from his eminence, the son of President William Howard Taft was not inclined to sneeze. Robert Alphonso Taft had measured the big attack on him with a politician's careful and increasingly anxious eye. It was not Ferguson alone he feared. Taft was running against a large number of other people including, in a way, himself...
With the 1950 political campaign still more than a year away, Senator Robert Alphonso Taft had taken to the hustings. The very first day he got down to business; a committee met him at the Cloverleaf and escorted him to a nearby hall where he addressed 350 delegates to the state convention of the Polish Legion of American Veterans...
Last week, at a Roman Catholic Church in London's Chelsea, Anglican Henry Pears Fisher, 30, a barrister and fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, married Roman Catholic Felicity Sutton, 26, an artist. They were married by Fr. Alphonso de Zulueta, "subject to the usual conditions of the Catholic Church," that is to say: 1) no other religious wedding ceremony could be performed; 2) any children of the marriage were to be brought up as Roman Catholics. The groom's mother and five brothers were present, but his father was unable to attend. He is Geoffrey Francis Fisher...
Vital Statistics. Age: 58 (born Sept. 8, 1889, in Cincinnati, in a gingerbread Victorian house overlooking the Ohio River). Ancestry: eldest of the three children (two sons, one daughter) of William Howard Taft, 26th President of the U.S. and later Chief Justice; grandson of Alphonso Taft, Secretary of War and later Attorney General in the Cabinet of Ulysses S. Grant. Educated: at his Uncle Horace's Taft School in Watertown, Conn. (1906); Yale (1910); Harvard Law School (1913). Married: in 1914 to Martha Bowers, witty, vivacious daughter of President Taft's Solicitor General Lloyd Bowers. Children: William Howard...