Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Edgar Borah was one of the few liberals of the Republican Party who did not abandon the sinking political ship of William Howard Taft and bolt the party. Last month Senator Borah frightened conservative Republicans of Taft's native State by announcing that he was going to run in Ohio primaries to prevent the naming of a favorite son. who would be used to deliver Ohio's convention vote to a boss-picked, Old-Guard candidate. Last week Ohio Republicans scurried about to find a rival candidate to prevent the Ohio delegation from going to the Idahoan...
Balked at every turn, Ohio's leaders decided to pick the best man they could from their own State. They selected one of Ohio's most reputable Republicans, Robert Alphonso Taft, elder son of the 27th President of the U. S., grandson of Grant's Secretary of War and Attorney General. Lawyer Taft's chief qualifications were: 1) his name; 2) his "gold-clause" suit for $1.07 against the U. S. Government, a suit against which the New Deal's best legal talent last week filed a brief in the Court of Claims...
Hard-packed snow over an ice crust made the trial both fast and treacherous for the 60 odd competitors in the sixth annual Hochebirge Invitation Ski Race held Sunday on the Richard Taft Trial. The Crimson team finished fourth in a field...
Appointed. Paul Fessenden Cruikshank, 37, founder and headmaster of Romford School (Washington, Conn.); to succeed Horace Button Taft, 74, as headmaster of Taft School (TIME, Dec. 31); in Watertown, Conn...
Representing the Crimson in the Invitation Race will be Captain Adams Carter, Bob Shaw, Dave Emerson, Charlie Rogers, and Dunbar Carpenter. On their last visit to the Richard Taft Trail, the skiers took time trials and the time made by Dave Emerson compared favorably with the record time of two minutes 42 seconds set by Dick Durrance of Dartmouth who is now taking part in the Olympics...