Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President. Mary Todd Lincoln's $3,000* a year was the first pension for a Presidential widow. Since then pensions have been granted to nine other Presidential widows-Julia Gardiner Tyler, Sarah Childress Polk, Julia Dent Grant, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, Ida Saxton McKinley, Edith Carow Roosevelt, Helen Herron Taft, Edith Boiling, Galt Wilson, Grace Goodhue Coolidge. Last week this polite beneficence was impolitely questioned for the first time...
Died-Rear Admiral Gary Travers Grayson, U.S.N., retired, 59; personal physician to Presidents Roosevelt I, Taft, Wilson; of anemia and respiratory infection; in Washington, D. C. A few hours before death came, Roosevelt II called at Admiral Grayson's home, was not allowed to see his good friend whom he named chairman of the American Red Cross in 1935-Died. Prince Nicholas of Greece, 66, uncle of Greece's King George II, father of Britain's Duchess of Kent; of a stroke; in Athens. In impoverished exile in Paris, 1924-35, he improved his time with...
...January 19 on the calendar, the day he disappeared, was "Taft Hotel." A check on the Taft Hotel in New Haven, Connecticut, revealed that a Paul Warner was registered there at that time, but the clue has yet been traced no further...
...them last week when Justice Roberts' majority decision held that "to recite the contents of the message in testimony before a court is to divulge the message," that the Act applied to "Federal officers as well as others." Justices Sutherland and McReynolds, who in 1928 (along with Justices Taft, Sanford and Van Devanter) upheld it, again dissented, snorted that their colleagues were losing "all sense of proportion." To the confusion of observers Justice Hugo LaFayette Black, who in 1935 as a Senatorial investigator blatantly commandeered the telegraph messages of William Randolph Hearst and others, voted against wire tapping...
...these holders of Liberty Bonds, marked payable in gold but called for redemption in "legal tender," contended that the redemption call was invalid, hence that the Government still owes interest on the bonds. This week, these three cases-two of them brought by Cincinnati's Lawyer Robert A. Taft, son of the late Chief Justice William Howard Taft-were decided. By a majority of 6-to-3, the Court once again upheld the Government's right to repudiate its pledge to pay in gold...