Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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David Sinton Ingalls has a genius for environment?its selection and exploitation. He began by being born well, in Cleveland. His mother was the daughter of the late rich Charles Phelps Taft of Cincinnati and the niece of the late Chief Justice. His father is a vice president of New York Central R. R. He proceeded to St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., where he quickly developed a dashing stellar proficiency in hockey, a major St. Paul's sport. Here first his squinty smile, his shock of dark hair and high-pitched Taftian chuckle began...
...behalf of Ernest Michel, his candidate for a Federal judgeship, Minnesota's blind Senator Schall last week carried to the White House his fight against Attorney General Mitchell, chief Michel critic. He told President Hoover: "Taft wrecked his Administration by trusting Ballinger, Harding wrecked his by trusting Daugherty and Fall. Are you going to wreck yours by further trusting your Attorney General...
William Cameron Forbes, bald, aristocratic Bostonian, has held two outstanding positions in Statecraft. He was Governor General of the Philippines, chief U. S. executive in the vast Pacific, under President Taft. He is now Ambassador to Japan, only U. S. Ambassador in all Asia...
...Crimson teams have hopes for success. Technology has had a fairly successful season, having been defeated badly only by Yale, and gaining several victories. The University delegation has had one defeat, a victory, and a draw, while the first-year men have had two victories and a defeat from Taft ten days ago. In the meet with Taft the team was weakened by illness and injuries, but intensive training since the mid-year period has brought it up to its former strength. Coach Gallagher has picked his team from winners of elimination tournaments thus insuring close competition for places...
Died. Mrs. Annie Sinton Taft, 77, relict of the late Publisher Charles Phelps Taft of the Cincinnati Times-Star, sister-in-law of the late Chief Justice William Howard Taft, grandmother of Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics David Sinton Ingalls; of heart disease; in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was the founder with her husband of Cincinnati's Institute of Fine Arts, patroness of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra...