Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Phenomenal in 1938 was Robert Alphonso Taft's Ohio Senatorial victory over promising New Dealer Robert Johns Bulkley. Mr. Taft was phenomenally dull, phenomenally serious, phenomenally popular at the polls. Prissy, solemn, ponderous Mr. Taft was expected to fade away into the obscure routine of a freshman Senator. He didn't. He engaged in a series of radio debates with clever, Horace-quoting Democratic Congressman T. V. Smith of Illinois. Most people expected Mr. Taft to be skunked. But pollsters found the U. S. public voting for Senator Taft's serious, platitudinous remarks 2-to-1 over...
...edition of "The Pratrio Years" is now also available. . . . Henry Seidel Canby's "Thoreau" is a good, solid work on a great American writer. . . . Havelock Ellis' "My Life" is an undistinguished chronicle of a distinguish life. . . Henry F. Pringle makes "The Life and Times of William Howard Taft" a far more appealing and interesting book than one's impressions of the Taft administration would make one suspect. . . . Boris Souvarine's "Stalin" is less a biography than an attack on the man who, in the author's opinion, has sold out the ideals of the Russian Revolution...
...Kansas City, Mo., Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft crossed a picket line and a precedent to dine at the Kansas City Club-despite the fact that the A. F. of L.'s Hotel and Restaurant Employes' union has picketed the club for a year...
...Record for the most courageous, most politically inept 1940 campaign statement thus far went last week to Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft. In Des Moines, Iowa, corn kernel of the country, Mr. Taft bluntly announced his wholehearted opposition to the New Deal's corn-loan policy-on the very day the Agriculture Department announced a 57?-per-bushel corn loan, thus pouring into the State about...
District Attorney Dewey, Senator Taft, and Senator Vandenberg, likely Republican choices, will be discussed by James J. Pattee, Jr. '41, Thomas M. Cook '42, and Richard B. Wolf '41, respectively, while Thomas J. O'Toole '42, Grenville Clark, Jr. '41, and Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41, are discussing the qualifications of Paul V. McNutt, Secretary of State Hull, and President Roosevelt...