Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More important in politics than the score of victory is the score of defeat. By that score Senator Borah was practically eliminated as a candidate. He lost Ohio almost 2-to-1 to Favorite Son Robert A. Taft, and last week he lost New Jersey to Governor Landon by 4-to-1. These two losses outbalanced a half-victory in Wisconsin, a moral victory in Illinois and four victories by default in other states...
...delegates. His entrance into Ohio was made for the specific purpose of thwarting regular Republicans' plans to name a favorite son, and thus to deliver Ohio's bargaining power intact at the Cleveland convention. Old Guardsmen went right ahead and picked as their favorite son Robert Alphonso Taft of Cincinnati, elder son of the late Chief Justice. Candidate Borah stumped vigorously in the northern portion of the State, made a loud noise against false-front candidacies. Candidate Taft canvassed the State like a bona fide candidate, although Ohio freely figured that his delegates really stood for Governor Landon...
Last week Candidate Taft's eight dele-gates-at-large pulled nearly 2-to-1 ahead of Candidate Borah's in the Statewide vote. Senator Borah elected two district delegates in Akron, one each in Cleveland, Youngstown and Steubenville. Mr. Taft carried off the other 47 of Ohio's 52 votes. In fact the earnest, high-minded lawyer-son of the 27th President of the U. S. made such a surprisingly good showing that romantic journalists began to circulate rumors to the effect that Mr. Taft, instead of being just a hopeless Favorite Son, might make...
...Roosevelt I stood for election and Ohio gave her some 278,000 votes of approval. Mrs. Longworth has attended six Republican National Conventions, as an interested spectator. Next month at Cleveland she will attend her seventh, as an Ohio delegate-at-large favoring the nomination of Robert Alphonso Taft...
Actually that harmony was an illusion. The national Chamber was founded in 1912 under the benevolent eye of William Howard Taft for the express purpose of answering the old question: "What does business think?" The answer is that business seldom agrees on any but the broadest and vaguest questions. The legislative interests of one company, of one industry, may directly conflict with those of a dozen others. Lately the Chamber has been criticized for representing only small commercial enterprises. Only last month it was learned that the Automobile Manufacturers Association had transferred its allegiance from the Chamber to the more...