Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book form, City Management: The Cincinnati Experiment - by a bright young man who had associated himself with the movement from the beginning, who had gotten his political ideals from his Presidential father, his aggressive pertinacity from the football fields of New Haven and the battlefields of France-Charles Phelps Taft...
...first voters to the polls chose the judges. If a Democratic sheriff was in office, he was likely to round up all the Negroes in the calaboose for the day, lest they vote Republican. In the election of 1884, there were two fatal shootings and Election Judge William Howard Taft was one of the very few who went unarmed...
...trustees of the property on behalf of a group of King heirs. That the suit was filed in Federal court was accepted as evidence of the overpowering local influence of the Klebergs as rulers of the King Ranch. The lawyer is Thomas Hart Fisher, whose father was President Taft's Secretary of the Interior, himself a member of Chicago's eminent firm of Fisher, Boyden, Bell, Boyd & Marshall. His clients are two grandchildren of old Captain King named Atwood. These Chicago heirs have long been dissatisfied with the way their first cousin, Robert II, has run the ranch...
...Washington. Presidents, unlike kings, may not favor any one commercial house but the White House has to have a piano and in 1902 when Theodore Roosevelt accepted the $18,000 Steinway Gold Grand "in behalf of the nation," the die was cast. White House musicales began soon after. Mrs. Taft, who taught at the Cincinnati College of Music before she married, asked the Steinways to put them on. They looked around their office for some one both musical and businesslike who would not attempt to capitalize on the Presidential connection, decided on Henry Junge, one of their secretaries, a native...
...last summer, D. P. I. was operating last week in a six-room office in the huge Department of Commerce Building. At its head was Katherine C. Blackburn, a dark, plump, capable woman who has been a professional newsreader and factfinder for 14 years. She clipped papers for President Taft, did research work at the World Economic Conference for William Christian Bullitt, recently functioned as factfinder to Professor Raymond Moley. Miss Blackburn has a smoothly organized staff of 17 assistants to scissor, file and index clips from 400 or more U. S. newspapers. She does most of the editorial work...