Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means a political blind alley are the Philippines, as the subsequent careers of onetime Civil Governor William Howard Taft, Governor-General Henry Lewis Stimson and High Commissioner Frank Murphy well demonstrate. Far from relinquishing his Presidential ambitions last week, Paul McNutt let slip to the press that it would probably be only a year or so before he was back on the U. S. scene...
...keep the Court up-to-date by continual infusions of new blood. Although Senator McKellar last week gradually emptied the Senate with two hours of bumbling oratory, he succeeded before doing so in getting over a pertinent point: President Taft appointed five Supreme Court justices, Harding in a little more than two years appointed four, Hoover appointed three. Only four Presidents have had no chance to appoint even one justice: William Henry Harrison (who was President for only a month), Zachary Taylor (President for only 16 months); Andrew Johnson (because a hostile Congress reduced the size of the Court...
...snowstorm of March 4, 1909, at the inaugural of William Howard Taft, Governor Hughes was a fine figure riding down Pennsylvania Avenue on a white horse, with snowflakes bombarding his red whiskers. A year later Taft named him to the Supreme Court but the chill of that day seemed to stick in his bones. When 20 years later he was again nominated for the Supreme Court-the second man twice appointed to it*-he was quite a different figure. He had left the Court in 1916 to campaign unsuccessfully against Woodrow Wilson, a campaign in which he was called...
...Senator Norris who, in the contest between New Deal and Supreme Court, has always been on the New Deal's side, frankly declared, "I doubt the wisdom of the remedy suggested." Senator Ashurst. chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, hemmed & hawed and looked up the late Chief Justice Taft's views before saying he would sponsor the bill in the Senate. Chairman Hatton Summers of the House Judiciary Committee declared merely, ''We'll take their baby out and look...
...Bishop Aglipay claimed to have won over most of the Philippines' 7,000,000 Catholics, was clamoring for custody of all the Catholic Church's Philippine property. This matter was partially solved when the U. S. paid the Vatican $7,200,000 for its lands, William Howard Taft, civil governor of the Islands, simultaneously suggesting that it might be wise for the Church to send some U. S. bishops to the Islands...