Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...article by ex-President Taft in another column on this page states in a most convincing way the reasons which exist for backing up the work of Mr. Hoover as food conservator. We have in Mr. Hoover a man of most valuable experience abroad in a particular and most unusual kind of work which someone had to do here. We had in him a man not only of experience and ability, but one of the highest and most patriotic motives--a man above party animus or bias, above private interest, without concealments or prejudices. He patriotically assumed a most ungrateful...
This sort of treatment of a deserving public servant is either very short-sighted policy or else it is a deliberate service to the enemy. Mr. Taft is well within the truth when he says that food conservation here, and the sparing of food supplies for Italy, France and England, is the only effective means that we have at this moment of fighting the common enemy. In treating as an enemy the man who has under his command this little fight of ours with wheat and corn and meat and sugar, the senators are in simple fact weakening our allies...
...memorial biographical sketch of the late Charles W. Harkness was given by Horace D. Taft, principal of the Taft School at Watertown, Conn., a classmate of Charles W. Harkness and secretary of the Yale class of 1883. Members of the class were especially invited guests at the laying of the corner-stone, the other guests including members of the Yale Corporation, Mayor Campner, Mayor elect Fitzgerald and other city officials of New Haven, members of the committee on plans for university development, deans and directors of the various schools at Yale, and professors in Yale...
...subscription of $100,000 to the Liberty Loan from Yale University was announced by President Hadley at a mass meeting held at New Haven to open the campaign there. Professor William Howard Taft presided, and speeches were delivered by President Hadley, William P. Gould Harding, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, and Secretary Wilson of the present Cabinet. The speakers did not devote all their time to explaining the nature of the loan and its terms, but laid emphasis on the patriotic spirit which must be displayed...
...Spanish War, namely, the Cheney-Ives Gateway, the Miller Gateway, and the Ledyard Flagstaff. The procession will end up in the university Quadrangle between Woodbridge Hall and the Dining Hall, where patriotic songs will be sung and two addresses delivered from the balcony of Memorial Hall, from which President Taft spoke on his return to New Haven. These addresses will be delivered by George R. Vincent, 1885, President of the University of Minnesota and president-elect of the Rockefeller Foundation, and by Captain R. M. Danford, U. S. A., who has been in charge of the Yale...