Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frog Taft, Fish Swanson...
...Cincinnati's zoo had reason to be worried last week. On Dec. 15 they might be sold down the river. For Cincinnati's zoo is not self supporting. Since 1917 it existed through the benefactions of two Cincinnati women, Mrs. Mary M. Emery and Mrs. Annie Sinton Taft, who died last February. They provided the property, paid the operating expenses when the zoo's income did not meet them. Mrs. Taft's daughters and other zoo-conscious Cincinnatians agreed to pay the deficit to the end of this year. But debts for improvements piled...
Among the men who have delivered the Dodge lectures in the past have been William Howard Taft, Charles Evans Hughes, Viscount James Byrce, Elihu Root, and Samuel Walker McCall. They were given last year by Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law at the Harvard Law School...
...Teams captained by Author Ellis Parker Butler and Sociologist Henry Pratt Fairchild fought to a tie in a spelling bee held in Manhattan's Town Hall Club. Lawyer Henry Waters Taft (brother) was referee. Both captains were eliminated early in the game, Author Butler by "idiosyncrasy," Professor Fairchild by "millennium...
Died. Mrs. Eleanor Herron More, wife of Dean Louis Trenchard More of the Graduate School of the University of Cincinnati, sister of Mrs. Helen (William Howard) Taft, for whom she substituted more than once as the Land's First Lady; after long illness; in Cincinnati...