Word: taftian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Times, followed Taft and his influence for six years. Now he has tried to set down the whole story. The result is only disappointing insofar as it never gets behind the man to the driving attitudes of the section he represented. White details the well-known Taftian qualities: the bluntness, integrity, intellectual forcefulness and parliamentary skill which made him the Republicans most respected partisan. Recounting Taft's Republicans' most respected partisan. But the actions and attitudes of the Republican Old Guard, the core of Taft's national influence, emerged from The Taft Story as inexplicable as they entered...
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