Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Headwinds. As the week opened, Bob Taft hurried in to repair his earlier flub on farm prices, assured the voters that he meant revision, not reduction, of the parity ratio. While Taft took the low road (North Platte, Grand Island, Crete, Beatrice, Wahoo), wife Martha took the high road (Hyannis, Broken Bow, York, Seward, O'Neill). In three jampacked days, Bob addressed 8,000 in 13 speeches; Martha delivered a dozen more...
...President Taft's Solicitor General Lloyd Bowers. Children: William Howard, 32, who is researching Old Gaelic at Yale; Robert Jr., 30, Cincinnati lawyer; Lloyd Bowers, 25, a reporter on the Cincinnati Times-Star; Horace Dwight, 22, student at Yale. All four sons served in World War II. Church: Low-church Episcopalian...
Private Life. He lives quietly in a 26-room house in Georgetown, usually spends his evenings studying legislation, infrequently relaxing with detective stories. Next to absorbing facts, he most enjoys a game of golf (he shoots in the low 80s). In Cincinnati he owns a comfortable, 26-room house on 60-acre "Sky Farm," a farm in name only, although some 150 chickens supply eggs and broilers for the Taft table...
...Tulsa last week passers-by saw a big sign atop a building on a busy corner. It read: TRUMAN SAID HE WASN'T BIG ENOUGH TO BE PRESIDENT AND HE AIN'T. It was a Republican sign, but for Democrats it was a reminder of how low Harry Truman's prestige as President has fallen. It was also a harbinger of what they were in for with Harry Truman as their candidate...
...committee, however, praised "the complete cooperation of the College." Except for Leverett and Lowell Houses, which were considered comparatively low, all the College donations were higher than originally expected. Dunster House was the pace-setter all the way, ending with an average gift...