Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mary Strong Shattuck, widow of Albert, was sued by her former secretary, Frank Evans, for $300,000. He charged slander, ruin in body, health and mind, alleged that under the widow's guidance he prepared fraudulent income statements for her. The famed Manhattan law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft was named codefendant...
...came down the gangplank, the Filipino throng stared admiringly at the soldierly figure, the clean-cut features, the ready smile, then up went a great cheer which oldtimers said was more friendly, more cordial than any heard around the Manila docks since Secretary of War William Howard Taft landed there with his great smile...
...Wittkowska, Tenor Forrest Lamont, Basso Herbert Gould. Last year the Zoo Opera was in need of patrons, felt that an endowment campaign would be necessary if it was to continue. One of its two great patrons died six years ago-Mrs. Mary Emery. The other was Mrs. Annie Sinton Taft, widow of Publisher Charles Phelps Taft of the Cincinnati Times-Star, who felt unable to carry the annual deficit alone. But after her death last February (TIME. Feb. 9) it was found that the Taft estate left provision for paying the Zoo deficit which now includes that of the Opera...
...compared with 794 the term before. In none of the 113 cases which will go over to the next term has counsel filed briefs or made any argument. To Chief Justice Hughes goes chief credit for the court's dispatch. Following the methods of William Howard Taft, he has kept the court abreast of its docket by having all petitions for review, particularly those in criminal cases, acted upon in a week or so, winnowing out the real questions from the dilatory technicalities. Fortnight ago the Supreme Court refused to consider Albert Bacon Fall's bribery review after...
Although U. of C. is not a member of the "aristocracy of brains" it seems that the school that turned out men like "Uncle" Joe Cannon, William Howard Taft, Charles Gates Dawes, and Nicholas Longworth deserves to be mentioned when one of her favored sons passes...