Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Republicans in choosing as their candidate for Senator a member of "the legal staff of this Administration"-Lawyer John Lord O'Brian of Buffalo (see p. 12}. The shoe was really on the other foot: Lawyer O'Brian also served the U.S. ably under Republicans Taft and Hoover before the New Deal complimented* him by making him a member of its legal staff...
Ohio's Democrats cast five votes to every four for Ohio's Republicans but notable was the comeback of Republican Robert A. Taft, eldest son of the 27th U. S. President. Defeated for re-election to the Ohio State Senate in 1932, up-&-coming Lawyer Taft was Ohio's Favorite Son for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1936, ran for the Senatorial nomination this year against Supreme Court Judge Arthur Day. Best issue Campaigner Day could dig up was that Campaigner Taft was trying to buy his way into politics with "the Taft millions."* Result: Taft...
...statue of Washington carved by the late Sculptor Lorado Taft, which for 29 years had ignominiously squatted "in the mud" in Seattle, Wash., was upped to a 27-ft. pedestal near University of Washington's Henry Art Gallery. Found under Washington's feet were three undignified objects: a whiskey bottle cap, a punctured balloon, and a bemired note to "Dear Harry." The note: "Hiya, egg. . . . What have you been doing lately? Do you still go on those long walks like we used to? 'Bye, you snow bat.* Can you read this? If I thought you could...
...Washington, William Thomas ("Tom") Marshall, 72, White House librarian since 1899, retired. To the press he described the reading habits of Presidents he had known: McKinley "let Mark Hanna do most of his reading"; Roosevelt I "read about everything worth while . . . history, economics and good fiction"; Taft "had the most legal mind I ever observed." "Some people say Wilson read himself to sleep with detective stories, but I never saw any in his rooms''; Harding read "anything that came along. The wilder and woollier it was, the better. . . ." Coolidge was "a heavy digger after facts"; Hoover favored technical...
...unpaid, honorary officer, Moderator Bates will in effect be a public relations man, traveling about the U. S. delivering speeches, unifying Unitarianism. The big Unitarian footsteps he will follow will be those of such presidents of the General Conference (an office abolished a dozen years ago) as William Howard Taft and Harvard's Charles William Eliot...