Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McLean-owned Enquirer was polite about it; the Taft-owned Times-Star, less so. But here was a chance for the Scripps-Howard Post to demonstrate its boasted disrespect for the upper crust. The Post splashed a conversation between its city editor and Dr. L. W. Scott Alter, treasurer of the Union...
Awarded. Lorado Taft, sculptor, the annual gold medal of Manhattan's Holland Society for achievement in art; the Duchess of Talleyrand (onetime Anna Gould), the Cross of the French Legion of Honor; Joel Thompson Boone, President Hoover's physician, the Purple Heart medal (recently revived Revolutionary award for war service) and the Silver Star medal; Radiologist Leon Menville, the gold medal of the Radiological Society of North America for applying Roentgen ray examination to the lymphatic system in cancer work; Nobel Prizeman Prince Louis de Broglie, the 100,000-franc ($3,900) Prince of Monaco grand prix...
...Arundel, Sussex home, handsome, patrician John Galsworthy, 65. learned he had been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. To Dr. Irvinq Langmuir, 51, went the Nobel award for Chemistry (see p. 24). Left: by Mrs. Annie Sinton Taft, relict of Publisher Charles Phelps Taft of the Cincinnati Times-Star, sister-in-law of the late Chief Justice William Howard Taft: $5,637,233.41 each to Daughters Jane Taft Ingalls (mother of David Sinton Ingalls, defeated last week for Ohio's Governorship) and Anna Louise Taft Semple: $1,000,000 to the Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts...
...March 4, 1929 the Supreme Court was composed of six Republicans (Taft, Holmes, Van Devanter, Sutherland, Sanford, Stone) and three Democrats (McReynolds, Brandeis, Butler).* At utterance of the word "control" in connection with the exalted, non-partisan Supreme Court, Republican lawyers throughout the land raised a loud and angry cry against him. To G. 0. Partisans, it looked like the long-awaited "break" by ambitious young Mr. Roosevelt. He was indignantly accused of "slurring" the Court's high character. Two Republican ex-Governors of New York (Whitman and Miller) were publicly amazed and shocked. Paul Drennan Cravath, whose person...
Long had Supreme Court justices, wedded to tradition and their musty old quarters, resisted proposals to move. Chief Justice Taft finally argued his colleagues around to the wisdom of having a bigger & better home more befitting the court's dignity and importance. In 1926 Congress passed the necessary legislation, authorizing an appropriation of $9,700,000. Chief Justice Taft selected a seven-acre site across the Capitol Plaza and beside the Library of Congress. Condemned and demolished was an old red brick building in which Congress sat after the Capitol's burning, Confederate prisoners were housed during...