Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dozen years ago struggling to carry on the first U. S. Hofbrau. In his dark-paneled restaurant on 30th Street, Manhattan, he would tell proudly of the days when he had persuaded Theodore Roosevelt to eat pigs' feet and calf's head, when he had warned President Taft, a great steak-eater, against digging his grave with his teeth. In his palmy days August Janssen owned 20 Hofbraus. He spent $1,000,000 advertising JANSSEN WANTS TO SEE YOU.* But in 1921 Prohibition was withering the Hofbrau trade. And more distressing to August Janssen was his son Werner...
HARVARD BROWN Adelman, g. g., Fuller Rogers, cp. cp., McSweeney Whittemore, p. p., Fraad Holsapple, 1d. 1d., Morse Duffey, 2d. 2d., Payne Rabinovitz, c. c., Thoresen Murphy, 2a. 2a., Taft Edmands, 1a. 1a., Bogert Lessig, oh. oh., Robbins England, ih. ih., Merriam...
...Taft...
...nearest parallel to such an investigation as Representative Dickstein is about to launch against a friendly power occurred in 1911. Outraged by stories of pogroms by Tsar Nicholas' whip-wielding Cossacks, the House of Representatives passed a measure repealing the Russian-U. S. trade agreement. President Taft, realizing that there was ammunition for a serious diplomatic explosion, intervened before the bill reached the Senate. Secretary of State Knox announced that the treaty was being abrogated in accordance with its own terms...
...through subordinates. In Manhattan his house contained a sound proof room designed by Stanford White. By 1898, he was nearly blind. Of the things that filled the World from then until he died in 1911 - War with Spain, the assassination of McKinley, the Roosevelt Administration, the election of Taft - Joseph Pulitzer saw almost nothing. Last week Joseph Pulitzer Jr., 49, was cruising around the world with his wife on the Empress of Britain. When the huge Canadian Pacific liner reached Manila, the publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch had to cancel a speech he was to have made...