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Word: phelpses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This quality dour Alphonso Taft brought down from the dour uplands of Vermont in the 1830s. Grandfather Taft, Yale '33, looking for a quiet, middle-class town in which to practice law (his goal: yearly income of $3,000 to $5,000), was much taken with Cincinnati. There he...

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

No Dimple. Their elder son was Robert Alphonso Taft, born Sept. 8, 1889 in a Victorian house with colored-glass windows and scroll-trimmed porches in Cincinnati's Walnut Hills, on a bluff above the yellow Ohio River. Robert did not inherit the Taft dimple. His younger brother, Charles...

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

"The churches in the United States are under obligation to lead their nation to assume a responsible relationship to the present conflicts. This must begin with recognizing that the freedom from war which the U. S. now enjoys is not due to greater devotion to peace or superior moral excellence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: As to War | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

According to the theory that Dean Phelps has maintained over the past few years, the slight market rise with the war this year should send the percentage of potential flunkies up.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: About One-Tenth Is Potential Rate Of Probationers | 1/19/1940 | See Source »

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