Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meet held yesterday in driving snowstorm on the Taft Trail at Franconia Notch, New Hampshire five Harvard skiers gained third place and won the third prize...
Five Harvard skiers will compete in the United States Eastern Downhill Championship to be held Sunday on Taft Trail at Franconia Notch. The race is recognized as the most important skling event in this section of the country and a very strong field is expected to contend. The Crimson men who have entered the race are Andrew E. Ritchio, Jr. '34, Andrew Marshall, Jr. '34, Edward P. Davis, Jr. '34, Herbert S. Sise '34, and Charles S. Rogers...
...thirtieth reunion of the class of 1904 in the form of a tea at the White House this spring has apparently been called off by President Roosevelt, according to the United Press. The affair, announced yesterday by Edward F. Taft '04, secretary of the class, is supposed to have been cancelled a month ago. The United Press attempted last night in vain to secure confirmation of the cancellation through Marvin F. McIntyre and Stephen T. Early, secretaries at the White House, for President Roosevelt had retired for the evening...
...Butler was head steward of Manhattan's Hotel Windsor and lived in Mrs. O'Connor's rooming house. He went to Washington to supervise the inaugural supper. The memory of that evening was so nightmarish that when, 24 years later, he was invited to attend President Taft's inaugural ball as a guest, he flatly refused. That year he was living on a 350-acre estate next to John D. Rockefeller near Tarrytown, N. Y. and was virtually the owner of a $15,000,000 grocery business...
...team came in fourth in class 2 of the White Mountain Ski Runners meet yesterday on Taft Trail at Franconia. Andrew E. Ritchie, Jr. '34 was third in the race with a time of 3 minutes, 36 seconds. Herbert S. Sise '34 and Andrew Marshall, Jr. '34 were the other members of the team, and the fourth place was won by adding up the times of the three...