Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summary: HARVARD VERMONT Nevin, Levan, Matursevitch, r.f. l.g., Palmer, Lowka Merry, Kimbrough, l.f. r.g., Beckley, Lowka Boys, Upton, c. c., Morgan Hageman, Huppuch, r.g. l.f., Pires, Raymond Reisner, l.f. r.f., Taft, Grant...
...went to the Republican national convention at Chicago, clashed violently with the Old Guard that renominated Taft, bolted with Theodore Roosevelt whom he had never met. He accepted the Bull Moose vice-presidential nomination. In 1916, still Governor, he was back in the Republican fold when Charles Evans Hughes visited California under Old Guard auspices. They failed to meet, though for some time they were under the same hotel roof. Johnsonites were insulted. Hughes lost the State and the Presidency while Johnson was elected to the Senate where he has served continuously since 1917. In 1920 he missed a White...
...action climaxed 34 years of continuous agitation for Philippine freedom, following the islands' acquisition by the U. S. from Spain on payment of $20,000,000 under the Treaty of Paris (Dec. 10, 1898). William Jennings Bryan campaigned for the Presidency on that issue in 1900. William Howard Taft got his political start as the islands' first civil governor. Democrat Francis Burton Harrison proclaimed a "new era" when in 1913 he arrived to govern them. The Jones Act of 1916 declared: "It is, as it has always been, the purpose of the people of the United States...
Birthdays. Taft School Headmaster Horace Button Taft, 71; Banker Rudolph Spreckles, 61; Alfred Emanuel Smith, 59; all race horses...
...last years in California with his wife. He will continue as a director but will resign as chairman of the Chicago Clearing House and of bank-bailing National Credit Corp., now entirely supplanted by the R. F. C. A portly, white-haired gentleman, George Reynolds once declined President Taft's invitation to become Secretary of the Treasury. As his successor La Salle Street talks of conservative Stanley Field, now chairman of Continental Illinois' executive committee, British-born nephew of the late great Marshall Field...