Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trowel full. Mr. Thompson did likewise. Then a master mason scraped off their dabs, spread a skilful smear of his own while four workmen gently swung into place a three-and-one-half-ton block of Vermont marble inscribed "A. D. 1932." Within the cornerstone Mrs. William Howard Taft, whose late husband as Chief Justice was, more than any other man, personally responsible for the new building, had placed a lead box containing ceramic photographs of the present court and of Chief Justice Taft, a Congressional Directory, copies of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the Attorney General...
...George Foster Peabody voted for Eugene Victor Debs, the Socialist nominee for President, as a protest against Taft's subservience to Big Business and Bryan's oratorical fanaticism. Last week, writing to the New York Times, Mr. Peabody urged anyone who could not vote for Hoover or Roosevelt not to vote for Norman Thomas and his diluted Marxism, but for William Z. Foster, the Communist candidate, ''whose success through a large vote really would shock the body politic...
...wrote long homemade odes for every public occasion. Sample: Drift, clouds, drift, far o'er the Western sea; Rift, clouds, rift, in loveliness to me. Blow, winds, blow! Flow, tides, flow! Gild all with glory, Sun, we ask of thee! Canal workers submitted a protest to President Taft which read: "It isn't that we object to real poetry but Governor Thatcher's poetry is objectionable from every point of view. Something should be done by those in authority." Governor Thatcher's critics at the Tivoli Hotel parodied as follows: Crow, cocks, crow, from sunset until...
...years of itinerant school teaching. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War he joined the 2nd U. S. Volunteer Infantry, was elected Captain of Company I. He served a year in Cuba, fighting through the Santiago campaign. As an assistant secretary, he went to the Philippines with the Taft Commission. Back in Louisiana he got a quick law degree from Tulane University, was admitted to the bar in 1901, hung out his shingle at New Iberia, still his home. He served five years as a local prosecuting attorney, turned temporarily Progressive, made a losing run for lieutenant governor...
Even in Washington Jan. 20 is an inclement date for outdoor ceremonies. Weather charts reveal that its average temperature is 33° compared with 39° for March 4. Its precipitation is also higher. But not all March 4s are balmy. President Taft took the oath of office during an historic blizzard...