Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LIFE AND TIMES OF WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT-Henry F. Prlngle-Farrar & Rineharf (2 vols...
...Hopefuls: Senators Robert Taft of Ohio, Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, Arthur Capper of Kansas, Charles McNary of Oregon, Gerald Nye of North Dakota...
...young Manhattan patrician named Templeton Strong turned down a proffered job with the swanky law firm of Strong and Cadwalader (now Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft), tucked an oboe under his arm, and took a boat for Europe. There, hobnobbing with such hall-of-famers as the late Franz Liszt, the late Joseph Joachim Raff, the late Edward Macdowell, he made a minor name for himself as a talented U. S. composer...
...arsenal for the Allies (at good pay) while neutrally offering Germany the materials it could try to slip past the British blockade. His dramatization of statutory neutrality's paradoxes was aimed at bringing Congress to the same view. Such standpatters as Ohio's Taft, Maine's White, Georgia's George and Iowa's Gillette (whose adverse vote defeated the Administration neutrality program last July) switched their stand on the export of arms to belligerents. From outright embargo a Senate majority shifted to cash & carry: to let belligerents buy U. S. arms, pay before shipment...
...choose Mr. Roosevelt or someone else? Answers: 34.9% would choose Mr. Roosevelt, 53.3% would not, 11.8% didn't know. Who else? was the next question. The polices said: Don't know, 63.8%; Dewey, 9.6% ; Garner, 8% ; Vandenberg, 6.1% and on down to a vanishing point with Taft, Hull, Hoover, McNutt, Landon...