Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among previous notables who have held this position are Charles Evans Hughes, William Howard Taft, Jules Jusserand, and Elinu Root...
...thump, announcing that he would run in the Ohio primaries (TIME, Feb. 17). As an attempt to force a fight on Candidates Knox or Landon, it was a failure. Both declined to enter Ohio after his announcement. He was left facing a favorite son. highly respectable Robert Alphonso Taft, son of the late Chief Justice, shrewdly picked by Ohio's Boss Walter Folger Brown to head the regular Republican ticket. With their candidate strongest in the Cleveland-Akron-Youngstown area, Borah managers will consider themselves lucky to win half of Ohio's 52 convention delegates. Not more than...
...formally opening its tercentenary exercises on Friday, Harvard was able to observe another anniversary as well, that of the birth of Charles William Eliot on March 20, 1834. Not a few in the gathering must have recalled the meeting in Sanders Theatre just twelve years before, when Chief Justice Taft and other distinguished men brought greetings of the nation to Mr. Eliot, "America's first citizen," on his ninetieth birthday. How far, far away now seems that happy afternoon in March...
Died. Dr. William Holland Wilmer, 72, famed eye surgeon whose patients included Presidents Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, Coolidge; Charles Augustus Lindbergh, King Prajadhipok of Siam, Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Booth Tarkington; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. In 1925 grateful friends and patients opened in his honor the $4,000,000 Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, best equipped and most renowned institution of its kind...
...every primary candidate for President to have a running mate on the ticket, not as an aspirant for the Vice Presidency but as a second choice for the Presidency to whom Ohio convention delegates may turn in case their first choice cannot be nominated. As second choice on the Taft ticket was named Charles R. Frederickson, onetime president of the Ohio Manufacturers Association. Favorite-Son Taft's job will be to sit tight, become a rallying point around which Ohioans can gather to save Ohio from Borah...