Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...become Chairman of the Republican National Committee, manager of President Roosevelt's 1904 campaign. Next he became Postmaster General and, finally, Secretary of the Treasury. In that post he won the confidence and admiration of businessmen by his cool conduct during the panic of 1907. When President Taft took office, the only man ever to hold three Cabinet posts resigned from the Treasury, dropped out of public life...
...maintains a mortuary book in which he enters the names of eminent friends when they die. Among the 300 names already inscribed are Thomas Alva Edison, William Howard Taft, General William Crawford Gorgas, General George Washington Goethals, Sir William Osier...
Messrs. Fisher and Ley did not intend to break the New York law which forbids a corporation to practice medicine. William Howard Taft, a great lawyer just out of the White House, became a director of the Life Extension Institute and told his colleagues just how closely they could skirt the fence of Medicine. The American Medical Association made no noteworthy objections...
...built his first prefabricated house for Jeddo-Highland Coal Co. at Hazelton, Pa. in 1932. When Depression pointed up the need for low-cost housing, he persuaded some of his Princeton classmates to help him set up a company. Meantime Architect Howard T. Fisher of Chicago, son of President Taft's Secretary of the Interior, was putting together General Houses, Inc. And three months ago Architect William Van Alen, who designed Manhattan's Chrysler Building, had become sufficiently interested in prefabricated houses to accept a directorship in a third venture, National Houses...
After placing third in the Hochgebirge Second Class Invitation Meet, held last Sunday on the Richard Taft Trial at Franconia, New Hampshire, which proved at be one of the largest meets of the season, the Crimson skiers are confident of placing well tomorrow...