Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most Eminent English Poets" by Samuel Johnson. A volume on worms, entitled, "A General System of Nature: IV--Worms", by Sir Charles Linne, once belonged to James Monroe. Madison owned a book on antiques, "The Antiquarian Repertory", which is part of the collection. The presidents Jefferson, Garfield, Taft and Harrison all were represented by long books on government, the first named owning a book entitled, "Proceedings of the Government of the United States in Maintaining Public Rights to the Beach of the Mississippi against the Intrusion of Edward Livingston...
...many a notable career of public service began thus. Examples: The late William Howard Taft, Elder Statesman Elihu Root, Senator William Edgar Borah, Senator George William Norris...
...Legislature, he was elected to Congress in 1902. In the White House then was a slim saucy miss called "Princess Alice" Roosevelt. Congressman Longworth met her, danced with her, took her motoring in one of the capital's first cars. Under the chaperonage of Secretary of War William Howard Taft they, with others, made a junket together to the Orient. When their home-coming steamer docked at San Francisco, a newshawk spotted a very dapper young man busily engaged with bags and grips on deck while a pert and pretty girl sat on a trunk whistling at him the then...
...daughter of a President, she is smart, politically-minded. Her election would maintain the House's "widow tradition."* But her brother Archie scouted the notion that she would ever accept political office. Besides, most Cincinnati Republicans consider her something of an outsider; they prefer State Senator Robert Alphonso Taft, the late President...
Died. Thomas Fleming, 78, political cartoonist; at Maplewood, N. J. hospital; following a physical breakdown in Florida last year. An oldtime Democrat, he cartooned for the World, the Sun, the Commercial Advertiser. His "Senator Tillman's Allegorical Cow" grinned from every fencepost in the Bryan-Taft campaign of 1908. The cow was depicted standing on a map of the U. S., with farmers working to feed her mouth in the West. Wall Street bankers milking her in the East...