Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes is not the senior member of the Supreme Court although he served there before any other of its present members. President Taft put him on that bench as an Associate Justice in 1910 and the Republican Party lured him off in 1916 to run unsuccessfully for the Presidency. But the G.O.P. has more than made up that defeat to him. He served Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge four years as Secretary of State and in 1930 Herbert Hoover gave him the highest judicial post in the land. Where does the Chief Justice stand today...
...carried preferment in the committees of the U. S. Senate. Twice, however, he tried-and failed-to become a Progressive. In 1912, capitalizing on the fact that he was Wisconsin's hero, he angled for a Progressive nomination for the Presidency, to run against William Howard Taft. Naively he invited Teddy Roosevelt to back him. One evening in an overwrought condition he addressed a newspaper publishers' banquet in Philadelphia. He began by abusing the privileged classes, went on to abuse the Press, completely lost his head and launched into a meaningless tirade. Practically suffering a nervous breakdown...
...came when the State Department discovered that Henry Fletcher was also a diplomat. As chargé d'affaires at Peking in 1909, amid the rumblings that preceded the overthrow of the Empire, he proved his mettle. From then on his path was onward and upward. President Taft made him Minister to Chile. President Wilson promoted him to Ambassador, shifted him to troublesome Mexico. President Harding made him Undersecretary of State, later Ambassador to Belgium. President Coolidge appointed him Ambassador to Italy. He got the job of taking President-elect Hoover on a personally conducted tour of South America. Ultimately...
...gash gorge at its outlet was ideal for damming. Thirty-three years ago this week San Francisco asked the U. S. Department of the Interior for permission to build in Yosemite Park. For a decade successive Secretaries of the Interior backed and filled on the Hetch Hetchy project. President Taft appointed a board of army engineers to study the technical problems involved. Optimistically San Francisco voted a $45,000,000 bond issue. The last legal barrier fell in 1913 when Congress gave its full consent. By then Hetch Hetchy was a year past its real turning point. In July...
...There are people who may misinterpret the incident and have an idea that it was done with some thought of publicity." Nevertheless the evangelical fervor which he aroused was heartening to General Convention members who were worrying about finance. True, the Everyman's Offering raised by Charles Phelps Taft II amounted to more than $250,000. True, the women's Thank Offering came to $807,747. But the latter can be used only for future missionary work and the former makes only a 25% dent in the Church's $1,000,000 deficit...