Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Basis for this tirade: Virginia has given 8 presidents, Ohio 7: the former Washington. Jefferson, Madison, Monroe. Wm. Henry Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, and Wilson: the latter Grant. Hayes, Garfield, Ben. Harrison, McKiniey, Taft and Harding...
...famed editor of the Commercial Tribune was Murat Halstead, holding office in the 1860's to 1880's when the paper was the Commercial and the Commercial Gazette. He it was who so embittered the South by his editorials during the Reconstruction days, who gave William Howard Taft a job as cub reporter covering courts, who for 50 years was a power in the G.O.P., a sponsor and later an enemy of the celebrated Cox Gang, later a supporter of Mark Hanna. Most distinctive outward feature of the Enquirer is its curious, archaic style of headlines, suggestive...
...William Howard Taft...
...expected that 150 schoolboys and masters from all the leading New England preparatory schools including Andover, Choate, Exeter, Groton, Hotchkiss, Kent, South Kent, and Taft Schools, will attend. They will be distributed in various Harvard dormitories and will be taken through one of the houses as well as being addressed by members of the Harvard faculty and undergraduate body in order to acquaint them with the college system...
...President Roosevelt ordered a White House conference on the Care of Dependent Children in 1909. Result was the Children's Bureau, organized in President Taft's administration and made part of the Department of Labor when the latter was created in 1913. President Wilson in 1919 held a White House conference on Minimum Standards of Child Welfare...