Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Among those who attended the ceremony were representatives of the Harvard Club of New York, about 40 Congressmen, former President William Howard Taft, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '71, former Justice Charles Evens Hughes, General Peyton C. March, and a delegation of Rough Riders who served under Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War. There was no music and no eulogy. The only departure from the ritual was the reciting by the rector of Colonel Roosevelt's favorite hymn: "How Firm a Foundation." During the day Army airplanes hovered over the grounds of the Roosevelt home...
...secretary to the American Legation in Petrograd, in 1892 was private secretary to his uncle, T. J. Coolidge, Minister to France, and the following year became secretary to the American Legation in Vienna. He has long been prominent in diplomatic circles and was chosen as a member of the Taft party to the Philippines...
...private secretary to his uncle, T. J. Coolidge, Minister to France, and the following year became secretary to the American legation in Vienna. He left the legation to become instructor in history here. He has been exchange lecturer at the University of Berlin and at the Sorbonne, accompanied the Taft party to the Philippines in 1905 and was the University delegate at the Pan-American Scientific Congress in Satiago, Chill, in 1908. He has written "The United States as a World Power," "The Origin of the Triple Alliance", and "The American Historical Review...
...accomplishing what they are this cannot long remain the fact. As yet, we have heard no marked sign of encouragement from Washington, although we may believe President Wilson will defend this country to the utmost of his abilities. One statement of hope, however, was made yesterday by ex-President Taft, who, in an address to the Chamber of Commerce of Muskogee, Okla., is quoted as saying...
...years later he was appointed by President Taft as Secretary of the Navy and in this capacity organized systematic investigations with many subsequent reforms...