Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beta Theta Pi was worse until 1916 when college authorities commissioned Charles Phelps Taft II, son of William Howard Taft, to assemble a group of desirables, join Bet, raise its social status...
...President Roosevelt also made the following diplomatic appointments which the Senate confirmed: Lincoln MacVeagh of New Canaan, Conn. to be Minister to Greece. A Groton-Harvard man like the President, Mr. MacVeagh is head of the Dial Press. His father was Coolidge's Ambassador to Japan; his uncle, Taft's Secretary of the Treasury; his grandfather, Garfield's Attorney General. Minister MacVeagh speaks modern Greek a little...
Frankfurter. It was good Republican Henry Lewis Stimson, Secretary of War under President Taft, who first took Felix Frankfurter to Washington. As a U. S. attorney Lawyer Stimson had been vastly impressed with his ruddy, nervous little assistant who still had an accent when he came to him shortly after graduation from the Harvard Law School in 1906. Felix Frankfurter stayed long enough in Washington to gain the respect of President Wilson (who called him from Harvard in 1918 to head the War Labor Policies Board) and, more important, the lasting friendship of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano...
...Horst, Henry Janssen, Robert Lehman, Nicholas M. Schenck, W. J. (or I; the German capitals are alike) Norton, Gustav Oberlaender, James R. Perkins, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Julius Rosenwald, Samuel Sachs, Mortimer L. Schiff, Henry Schniewind Jr., Paul C. Schnitzler. Richard Schuster, W. B. Scott, James Speyer, Charles P. Taft, Ferdinand Thun, Elisha Walker, Paul M. Warburg, Felix M. Warburg, H. M. Warner, William H. Woodin, Adolph Zukor...
Married. Charles Seymour Whitman, 64, onetime (1915-18) Governor of New York; and Thelma Cudlipp Grosvenor, 40, relict of Attorney Edwin Prescott Grosvenor who was a cousin of William Howard Taft; in Manhattan...