Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Appointed by the President as No. 2 man on the new Tariff Commission was Thomas Walker Page, Virginia Democrat, oldtime tariff economist who served (1911-12) on President Taft's Tariff Board, on President Wilson's Tariff Commission, rose to be chairman...
Charles Phelps Taft II, Episcopalian, and Pope Pius XI chatted at the Vatican, recalled the visit to the Vatican of the lawyer's late great father, William Howard Taft, sent by Roosevelt in 1902 to hold parlance with the late Pope Leo XIII...
George Woodward Wickersham, President Taft's Attorney General. France
...road from the U. S. to Alaska through and with the aid of Canada. Declared President Hoover: "To some who are anxious over the appointment of temporary committees and commissions . . . we may suggest they are not a new necessity in government. President Roosevelt created 107 of them, President Taft 63, President Wilson 160, President Harding 44, President Coolidge 118. . . . I shall appoint others." Hoover commissions to date...
...bragged that they would carry on his work, that hoboes were hopping on freight trains for his funeral in Washington, that he was a good "stiff" (man). Washington police prepared for an influx of hoboes at the funeral last week in All Souls' Unitarian Church (whence William Howard Taft was buried). After the services the body was to be cremated and sent on to the family home at St. Louis. Only one tramp, and he but a nominal one, was there-Harry W. Johannes Jr. of Baltimore, representing the idealistic International Brotherhood Welfare Association. He would not enter...