Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since it was an act only to extend that which died before the act was passed, could the act resurrect the dead? Attorney General Murphy ruled it could and Franklin Roosevelt signed the act determined to conduct the nation's monetary affairs on that assumption. Republican Senators Taft and Austin argued to the last that no resurrection was possible, but had to admit the only way to prove their point was by a court review. This could be had only in the event that some one claims damage if & when Franklin Roosevelt does devalue the dollar further...
...Vandenberg and Farley. 2. Hopkins and Lodge. 4. Hull and Taft. 3. Pendergast and Hines. 5. Garner and Dewey...
...Hughes is the second man in history to have been both Justice and Chief Justice. The first was Edward Douglass White, whose colleagues in 1910 unanimously petitioned President Taft for his elevation to lead them. Mr. Hughes resigned from the Court in 1916 to run for President, went back as Chief in 1930 by President Hoover's appointment. Washington insiders last week predicted that, if Franklin Roosevelt must pick a new Chief Justice and follows precedent by picking from the field, his choice will lie between Frank Murphy and Robert Houghwout Jackson. If he promotes a Court member, they...
...Senator Robert Alphonso Taft, Ohio, 85%; voice quality good, delivery fair, mannerisms poor, poise fair. "Notably inept at speech-making," Senator Taft is marked down nevertheless as a "phenomenon of the politico-radio world." Reason: after his series of 13 radio debates with witty Congressman T. V. Smith, a radio veteran, on New Deal policies early this year, a Gallup Poll totted the score thus: Taft 66%, Smith 34%. Explanation: "He speaks a homely common sense with a sincerity that makes people listen to him anyway...
...logic," Radio Guide rated Franklin Roosevelt and Robert Taft "excellent,'' the rest "good...