Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Back in Washington after stopping off in New York to "meet" re-elected Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia (see p. 15), the President had traveled 114,008 miles in office, finally passed by eight miles the record established by William Howard Taft in 1909-13. In his press conference Mr. Roosevelt sparred with reporters by comparing a speculative stock market with speculative news stories (see p. 75). He then settled down for a series of talks with Congressional leaders over plans for a program on farm aid and wages-&-hours for the special session opening Nov. 15. Other callers included Unemployment...
...passengers to twelve. Passenger certificates lifted from other lines included the British owned Western Prince, which sails under U. S. Marine inspection certificate and United Fruit's liner Tivvies. Quickly the Dollar Line found means to make the long delayed alterations. Within a week the Presidents Pierce and Taft were extending their fire detecting systems and plans were completed to equip the line's remaining ships at a cost of $25,000 to $50,000 per ship...
This week, its bishops and deputies meeting respectively in Masonic Temple and Taft Auditorium, the convention was to tackle some of the problems which have been on its docket not only since the last convention three years ago, but for two or three years before that. Among them...
Retired. Charles D. Hilles, 70, who as Chairman of the Republican National Committee ran the unsuccessful Presidential campaigns of William Howard Taft and Charles Evans Hughes, and for 20 years remained the dominant figure of Republican politics in New York, as Republican National Committeeman from New York...
With the exception of ponderous William Howard Taft, who covered 114,000 miles during his four years in the White House, Franklin Delano Roosevelt has probably done more roadwork than any President in U. S. history. Up to last week, the Roosevelt mileage at home and abroad since 1933, totaled roughly 104,000. Last week appeared the likelihood of a trip that would considerably increase his mileage. Washington rumor for the past month has murmured that the President planned a cross country jaunt to Seattle, ostensibly to visit his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John Boettiger. Last...