Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after years of argument, Congress appropriated money to build a suitable home for the Supreme Court, which for nearly 70 years had been meeting in dusty discomfort in the original Senate chamber in the Capitol. Chairman of the building committee was Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who easily persuaded his fellow members to appoint white-haired, dignified Cass Gilbert as architect...
Never inactive, even for a weekend when they do not plan to enter any meets, the Crimson skiers will spend two days running the Wildcat and Taft trails under the guidance of Coach Charley Proctor...
Sunday the skiers will go to Franconia and try out the Taft trail there. In the following few weeks, there will be races on both these runs so that the Crimson should be all prepared for them...
Died. George Woodward Wickersham, 77, corporation lawyer, U. S. Attorney-General under President Taft, stanch advocate of the League of Nations; of a heart attack; in a Manhattan taxicab. In 1929 he headed President Hoover's National Commission on Law Observance and Law Enforcement. The 286-page report, issued in 1931, equivocated on Prohibition, aroused a storm of controversy, both wets and drys claiming victory. None of the recommendations became...
Sunday morning the skiers will gather on Mt. Greylock for a run over the Thunderbolt trail in the downhill event. This run ranks with the Taft and Wildcat trails in difficulty...