Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Taft's four years in the White House were not happy ones. Mrs. Taft was an invalid. He lost control of Congress at midterm. Roosevelt turned viciously upon him. But, withal, he kept his good humor, jested about going on a diet as he ate his customary White House breakfast of two oranges, a 12 oz. steak, creamy, sugary coffee, toast thick with butter...
...corner," as he said himself, he was driven to seek and win the Republican nomination of 1912 over Roosevelt's opposition. Then followed the three-cornered contest between a Yale man, a Harvard man, and a Princeton man for the Presidency. Everybody loved "Bill" Taft but love does not always make votes. Taft was ignominiously defeated. Though Connecticut went for Woodrow Wilson in that election, Taft had the satisfaction of beating Roosevelt in the state...
Yale took him back with open arms. It made him Kent Professor of Law, supplied him with an enormous chair to hold his 340 Ibs. In the Taft Hotel, named for him, he had a special office, rent-free, because he was a public character. Then followed eight happy tranquil years of teaching. Taft's older son Robert had graduated from Yale (1910) when his father was in the White House. Charles, much like his father, in manner and mind, was the all-around man of the class of '18. He played basketball, football, was the most popular...
...last Saturday night of the 1920 campaign Taft made a ringing speech in Woolsey Hall at New Haven in behalf of the Republican party and the election of Warren Gamaliel Harding. Less than eight months later President Harding appointed him Chief Justice of the U. S., which had always been the goal of his ambition...
...Country and For Yale" -was more than just a college-slogan for William Howard Taft. It represented a quality of public service, a sense of good-natured sportsmanship, a fidelity to duty that colored his whole existence...