Word: taft
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Assistant Attorney General Peter Taft, who drafted Justice's brief, hopes that Congress will decide on a one-shot cash and land settlement of the Indian claim; the Government would presumably provide the bulk of the cash, as it did in the $1 billion Alaska native claims settlement of 1971. If there is no settlement by June 1, the Justice Department would start filing suits-most likely against paper companies with large landholdings. The outcome-in either legislation or litigation-could set the pattern for the settlement of similar yet smaller Indian land claims in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut...
...sinking of the British luxury liner Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland, the American sadly told the world of the drowning of John Jacob Astor, prominent financier and pillar of New York society. Subsequent paragraphs of the story dealt with the equally shattering deaths of Archibald Butt, President Taft's military advisor, and Harry Elkins Widener of library fame. The news of the 1499 others who perished in the numbing North Atlantic that night--most of them Irish and Eastern European immigrants travelling in steerage class--was buried deep in the inside pages, hidden below another tragedy, the Giants' Christy...
City boys seem to sense the change too. In the past few years, aggressively recruiting coaches have skimmed away the best talent from New York's playgrounds. If one wanted to see the pro prospects turned out by high school powerhouses like DeWitt Clinton, Taft, Boys High, Power Memorial, and Canarsie in action, the best bet was to watch Nevada-Las Vegas or Tennessee on television...
...Chief Executives starting with William Howard Toft according to the energy they put into the job (passive or active) and their feelings about their presidential experience (negative or positive). Based on that, according to Barber, they fit into one of four categories: passive-negative (Coolidge, Eisenhower); passive-positive (Harding, Taft); active-negative (Wilson, Hoover, Johnson, Nixon); and active-positive (F.D.R., Truman, Kennedy, Ford). TIME asked Barber, who has closely and critically studied Jimmy Carter for three years, to analyze the character of the President-elect. His report...
Marshall certainly wasted no time in outlining his agenda. He said he would present to President-elect Carter the "strongest case" for repealing Rule 14B, the Taft-Hartley Act's "right to work" provision authorizing states to void labor contracts requiring workers to join unions. This, in Marshall's view, would be part of an "equitable solution" under which workers could henceforth be compelled to pay dues but not to join unions. (Carter has not called for the repeal of 14B but has said he would sign a repeal if passed by Congress.) Marshall also denounced existing...