Word: tafts
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Born in Tenafly, N. J., in 1881, Judge Thacher went to Taft School, was graduated from Yale in 1904, from the Yale Law School in 1906. In 1907 he was ap pointed Assistant U. S. District Attorney in Manhattan. He joined his father's firm, Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, of which Ambassador Dwight Whitney Mor row was once a member. He had many large corporations among his clients, de fended the directors of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad in 1915 when they were charged with trying to monopolize New England commerce, was attorney for the "Terra Cotta Trust...
...president must also pick up the few threads of Illinois' fame in the field of Art and Literature. Hallowed is the name of that conservative critic, the late great Stuart Pratt Sherman, and vital is the influence of Sculptor Lorado Taft, an alumnus, who is a non-resident professor...
Sirs: Two recent statements in your columns lead me to write you. One is in your article on the resignation of Judge Taft "Outstanding decisions: one." In Taylor v. Railroad, in the 88th Federal, Judge Taft's opinion established the right of the taxpayers to resort to the courts for protection against tax discrimination; his decision in U. S. v. Addystone Pipe Co. is one of the most frequently cited opinions dealing with the rights of corporations under anti-trust laws; his decision in the Burlington railroad case established the right of the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate rates...
...Judge Taft is one of our great lawyers. During the past years I have, in the discharge of professional duties, had occasion to study through some of his decisions back even to the old English cases he cited...
Engaged. Amanda Stewart Bryan, daughter of Publisher John Stewart Bryan of the Richmond, Va. News-Leader; and Richmond Keith Kane, Manhattan lawyer (Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft), onetime (1921) Harvard football captain, Harvard, Oxford oarsman...