Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Taft Stamp...
Death alone can put a President on a postage stamp. Last week the Post Office Department announced that a portrait of William Howard Taft would appear early this month on all 4¢ stamps, replacing Martha Washington. The first First Lady will not be completely ousted from the mails because her likeness will continue to appear on the reply half of the 2¢ business postal card. (George Washington is on the address half.) The new Taft portrait will be that of the corpulent twenty-seventh President of the U. S., not of the leaner tenth Chief Justice...
...sent an armful of roses. Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York regretted that he could not attend the celebrations but his wife presided at one of the meetings. Mrs. Coolidge sent a telegram. So did Viscountess Astor of England and Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick of Illinois. Henry Waters Taft, head of the Army's New York City Advisory Board, helped Commander Booth dedicate a new building in Manhattan, the Centennial Memorial Temple, costing $2,500,000. Financial Broadway cast ticker tape on a parade of Salvationists. John Philip Sousa composed a march and led massed Army bands playing...
Other participants in the competition who were deemed worthy of special notice were the Taft Papyrus, the Phillippian of Andover, the Hill School News, and the Blair Breeze...
...world is only beginning to realize what we who love art have known all along, that Chicago is the city of destiny, that although our feet may be in the mire, our souls are peering into the beyond."-Sculptor Lorado Taft, addressing the Women's Chicago Beautiful Association...