Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...debt. Eleven million unemployed left on base." Noticeably elated by the success of his Chicago oratory, Nominee Landon appeared in Cincinnati next morning to furnish more proof of his growing self-confidence. At the station to meet him was his favorite Cincinnatian and prized adviser, bright young Charles P. Taft II, leader in the city's Charter reform movement (TIME, Aug. 3). After shaking hands with other welcomers, Alf Landon turned to Charlie Taft, checked with him to be sure of the name "Charter," started toward a radio microphone set up for the occasion. Guessing the Nominee...
...stamp of a man devoted to the needs of the people. His lieutenants are singularly suited to carry forth a progressive program; they would well merit the name "brain trust", were that name not in such ill repute. And who would not prefer William Allen White and Charles Taft to Tugwell...
...saying, "politics makes strange bed-fellows". Ranging next in importance behind the standard bearers one finds a line of mid-western politicians:--hardly men of cabinet timber or potential leaders in the government of the United States. Roy Roberts, Lacy Haynes, William Allen White, Hill Blackett, Robert P. Taft: these are the men who, presumably, will be prominent members of the Landon regime should it ever attain office...
When Founder Taft, still spry and salty at 74. told his trustees last year that he wanted to resign (TIME, Dec. 16), they took little time to agree unanimously on Headmaster Cruikshank as his successor. Now 38, Paul Cruikshank worked his way through Yale by covering University news for New York and Boston papers, managed the freshman swimming team, found time to win two Latin prizes. After graduation he taught at Gunnery and Hopkins, before starting his own school. In 1923 he married Edith Fitch, has one son, three daughters. As conservative as Horace Dutton Taft in educational policy...
...Diego, Calif, last week, on his first long vacation in 46 years, onetime Headmaster Taft kept busy by writing articles on the Civil Service and the Merit System, his old-age hobby. Recently a secretary at Massachusetts' Worcester Academy heard that he was "leaving Taft." hopefully sent him a pupil's application blank. Horace Dutton Taft gravely filled it out, gave his age as 74, replied that he "enjoyed reading very much," chuckling sent the blank back to Worcester...