Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League majority, flatly disagreeing with Chairman Janssen, was headed by Economist George Bassett Roberts of Manhattan's National City Bank, successor on the commission to his father George Evan Roberts, who was director of the U. S. Mint under Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft. Upholding the gold standard, the majority, or Roberts report, urged every nation that can do so to stick to gold, flayed proposals for bimetallism or a return to the silver standard...
...Ohio is normally Republican. He has many a potent friend including Dan Hanna, publisher of Cleveland's News, grandson of the late great Boss Mark Hanna; Maurice Maschke, Cleveland boss; and Fred Clark of the Crusaders. His wife Louise was a Harkness, his mother a niece of President Taft. His father is with the New York Central R. R. which draws toward him thousands of conservative Labor votes. He was the Navy's only War ace. His smile is engaging, his manner like his nature, open and unaffected...
...Shanghai the Dollar Liner President Taft brought last week a 45-year-old U. S. housewife who set sail for China soon after she received the following letter...
...politics are many able young college-trained men. Not a few inherit their politics from famed kinfolk. Conspicuous is David Sinton Ingalls, 33, Yale 1920, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, grandnephew of the late William Howard Taft, who is now seeking to become Governor of Ohio. Robert Marion ("Bob") LaFollette, 37, fills his late father's seat in the Senate. He studied at the University of Wisconsin as did his brother Philip Fox LaFollette, 35, Governor of Wisconsin. Paul John Kvale, 36, who studied at the University of Chicago, Luther College and the University of Minnesota, succeeded...
...Died. Julia Clifford Lathrop, 74, famed child-welfare worker; after a thyroidectomy; in Rockford, 111. Daughter of Illinois' onetime Congressman William Lathrop, she was trained in Jane Addams' Hull House in Chicago, was long a member of the State Board of Charities. When President Taft set up the Federal Children's Bureau in 1912, she became the first woman head of a Government bureau, fostered it until 1921. Worker Lathrop fought for the recognition of illegitimate children, advocated U. S. statutes like Norway's. The National League of Women Voters selected...