Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chief Justice (William Howard Taft) had returned to Washington early, after a frolicsome 71st birthday (with eleven grandchildren) at his summer lodge at Murray Bay, Quebec. Prior to convening his eight Supreme colleagues, he held a three-day conference with the senior judges of the U. S. Circuit Court. He informed President Coolidge that five additional Federal judges should be benched in Manhattan and Brooklyn to cope with the mounting arrears of Prohibition and tax cases...
...School, Watertown, Conn.). Three of these Tafts had issue. Charles Phelps Taft's children were Jane, David, Anna, Charles. William Howard Taft's were Robert, Charles Phelps II, Helen. Henry Waters Taft's were Walbridge, William Howard II and Louise. These, in turn, have produced eleven grandchildren. . . . Lorado Taft, famed sculptor, native of Illinois, is a distant, if any, relative...
...lifelong gifts to charity were noteworthy, including $300,000 which she gave with Clarence W. Mackay to the University of Nevada. One of the three grandchildren present at her dea.th was Mrs. Irving Berlin (Ellin Mackay), whose marriage to the Tin Pan alley tycoon led to an estrangement from her father...
...pushed aside McAdoo and forced the nomination of Cox at the Democratic convention in 1920. The same forces compromised on John W. Davis in 1924, when the Smith movement failed. Mr. Taggart is now in ill health and resides quietly at French Lick, Ind., playing croquet with his grandchildren...
...Johanna Aim, 94, said that she had six children, 26 grandchildren, ten greatgrandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. Then she began to dance a waltz which resulted in her receiving great applause and a prize which pleased...