Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head table, placed along the long wall of Harvard Hall, the Club's dinning room, opposite the hall of entry. These men numbered the 11 Yale starters, plus Allen, Whitman, Harlow, Bingham, Merriman, Edward A. Taft '04, president of the Harvard Club of Boston, Robert F. Herrick '90, toastmaster, and Leo H. Leary '05, former football coach...
Dick Harlow will be the chief speaker, aided by toastmaster Robert F. Herrick '90. Other talkers include Edward A. Taft '04, Bill Bingham '16, Russ Allen '38, Leo H. Leary '04, Roger B. Merriman '96, and the Captain elect...
...there because one of the other guests was Republican Boss William Lorimer, whom the U. S. Senate sensationally refused to seat on the ground that his election was fraudulent. In 1912, when Roosevelt I split the club even more bitterly by his Chicago Bull Moose Convention, President William Howard Taft laid the cornerstone of the Hamilton's $1,000,000 16-story clubhouse in the shadow of the First National Bank...
...Yale is an institution of higher learning supported by loyal alumni and wealthy friends. It has modern, fireproof buildings within five minutes of the Hotel Taft and also a distinguished faculty composed of well-known professors...
...presidents of the American Bar Association the Committee got a petition stating succinctly that he was "not a fit person to be a member of the Supreme Court." One of the bar association presidents who signed the petition was also a onetime President of the U. S.- William Howard Taft. When Brandeis was finally confirmed and when William Howard Taft followed him to the bench as Chief Justice in 1921, observers were amazed to find that the two were friends. One night, when they had bumped into each other on the street in Washington, Taft said: "Mr. Brandeis, I once...