Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. William George Krieghoff, 54, Philadelphia Public Ledger's famed portraitist, painter of the late Chief Justice Taft, Col. Lindbergh. Eva Le Galhenne; of a heart attack; in Philadelphia...
...President Hoover last week motored around the tidal basin in Washington's Potomac Park, admired, along with thousands of ordinary citizens, the first pinkish-white bloom of the famed Japanese cherry trees which 'Mrs. William Howard Taft. when her husband was in the White House, received as a present from the Mikado and presented to the nation...
Drys jubilated, Wets expostulated, over Mr. Taft's phrase: "The result is glorious." What might have developed into a controversy as famed as the one that raged over Calvin Coolidge's "I do not choose," was averted when Prof. Fisher agreed that the result which Mr. Taft found glorious was not the state of Prohibition but the 1928 presidential election, main subject of the letter...
Excerpts from the Taft-to-Fisher letter...
Mellow and temperate, with a voice that trailed away vaguely, Schoolmaster Taft gave some Dry views of his own: "There may be a larger percentage of college men drinking today but the drunkenness is not one-twentieth what it was in my day. The scenes I've seen in New Haven if found there today would be cabled all over the world...