Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presbyterian & Publisher. Born into a family of gentlefolk 47 years ago at Marion, Ohio, Mr. Thomas started life as an orthodox Republican. He voted for Taft in 1908. His father was a Presbyterian minister, as was his Welsh-born grandfather before him. In Marion as a boy he used to deliver copies of the Star. Its publisher, Warren Gamaliel Harding, had a hearty way of slapping him on the back and calling him ''Norm." Years later "Norm" Thomas was thoroughly shocked when his old employer actually got into the White House...
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...uniting the efforts of these companies, full credit goes to Howard Fisher of Hubbard Woods, Ill., the lanky, 26-year-old son of Walter Lowrie Fisher, one of Chicago's leading lawyers. Secretary of the Interior under President Taft. Howard Fisher is both a technician and theorist in architecture. Architects in many lands have read his paper on getting the maxi mum amount of sunlight into a house. He is considered an expert on designing squash courts. One day he noticed his brother's walls were leaking. When he found out that Chicago's Field Museum and Shedd Aquarium, both...
Seventeen years ago when Cincinnati's Zoological Gardens were in peril of closing, two wealthy women came forward and saved them. Cincinnati Traction Co., owner of the property, threatened to break it up, sell it as building lots. Mrs. Charles Phelps Taft, wife of the publishing half-brother of William Howard Taft, gave $125,000 to prevent the split-up. Another $125,000 was given by Mrs. Mary Emery whose father-in-law, Thomas Emery, made one of the first big real estate fortunes in Cincinnati, increased it by manufacturing lard oil and candles...
...years after the Zoo Opera was founded, Mrs. Taft and Mrs. Emery made themselves responsible for the annual deficit. Both died, but last season when popular subscriptions failed to cover the losses, the Taft estate made up this difference. This year people were saying that it was the Emerys' turn and the challenge was taken up by young Mrs. John Josiah Emery, Artist Charles Dana Gibson's daughter who married old Mrs. Mary Emery's nephew. In April when the opera announced that it would have to disband, young Mrs. Emery at once started a campaign...