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...Hulbert Taft, 62, educated (like Bob and Charlie) at Yale, is a kindly, tall, wizened man whose chief interests, aside from his paper, are horses and music. He uses endless columns in the Times-Star to promote better music for art-loving Cincinnati. His attitude toward employes is friendly, paternalistic. The Times-Star avoids an American Newspaper Guild contract by the simple device of paying better salaries, granting longer vacations than its rival, the Post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Candidate's Paper | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...Howard Taft, bought the Times in 1879, and merged it next year with the Cincinnati Star. When he died in 1929, he left the Times-Star to his family. To each of his daughters, Mrs. Anna Louise Taft Semple and Mrs. Jane Taft Ingalls, went 40% of the stock. Hulbert Taft, his nephew, got 10%. Nephews Bob Taft, now candidate for President, and Charles Phelps Taft, a Cincinnati city councilman, each inherited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Candidate's Paper | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...Tafts got together, decided to let Hulbert Taft manage his uncle's paper. Hulbert has run it ever since. Senator Bob, Councilman Charlie rarely interfere with Hulbert's policies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Candidate's Paper | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...management of estates and trusts-especially those of Uncle Charles (d. 1929) and Aunt Annie (d. 1931). Largest asset of these: the Times-Star. To Bob and Charley, Uncle Charles left 1,000 shares each, appraised at $250,000; 2,000 shares to peppery, horse-loving Cousin Hulbert Taft, who runs the paper and is one of Bob's closest chums; and all the rest to daughters, Mrs. A. S. Ingalls of Cleveland, mother of David S. Ingalls, Bob's campaign manager and right bower; and to Mrs. Anna Louise Semple, wife of a Latin instructor at Cincinnati...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Up from Plenty | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...MURDER THAT HAD EVERYTHING-Hulbert Footner-Harper ($2). Among thinly disguised members of Manhattan's café society, Lee Mapin, a snuff-taking amateur, solves the murder of a glamor girl's gigolo fiancé. Merits: humor and action. Fault: not too plausible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in July | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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