Word: r
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet government representing 170,000,000 Russians. As a result, while charting themselves an extremely perilous course in foreign relations, the Finns have caused the people of the world to gaze with incredulity and curiosity at the one Baltic nation not capitulating to the U. S. S. R...
...Congressmen into line. He outmaneuvered the silken Senator Nelson Aldrich on the tariff, forced substantial cuts, then watched the whole country go hog-wild over a headline which twisted a few forthright words in one of his speeches. The muckrakers were abroad in the land and Taft lacked T. R.'s flair for handling them. The great "scandal" of his administration, and a chief cause of Roosevelt's resentment, was drummed up by Norman Hapgood of Cottier's against Secretary of the Interior Ballinger. Taft knew, and Pringle proves, that the evidence was inaccurate. Taft stuck...
When Roosevelt got back in 1910, the two old friends could not face the ordeal of seeing each other alone. The split was agony for Taft, who felt only admiration and gratitude for Roosevelt and considered that T. R.'s program had been faithfully carried on. "Theodore can't hear a dog bark," he said sadly, "without wanting to try conclusions with him." When Roosevelt campaigned against Taft in 1912, Taft refuted him point by point in Boston, then went back to his train with tears in his eyes...
Biographer Pringle thinks that a little more patience and steady thinking on Roosevelt's part might have averted all the discomfort. But he shows also that Taft became more & more conservative as the years passed, that he never had T. R.'s energy nor his intuitive understanding of the progressive movement, that his judicial temper fitted him less for the Presidency than for the Supreme Court, on which he sat as Chief Justice from 1921 until shortly before his death...
...Crimson speakers, Stanley H. Kapner '40 and Payson R. Wolff '42 took the affirmative of the subject, Resolved: The Townsend Plan Should Be Adopted" but were defeated by a 2-1 decision...