Word: tafts
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Resigned. William Howard Taft, Chief Justice of the U. S., Cincinnati-born (1857), Yale-educated (1878), lawyer, Ohio Superior Court Judge (1887-90), Solicitor General of the U. S. (1890-92), U. S. Circuit Judge (1892-1900), first Civil Governor of the Philippines (1901-04). Roosevelt's Secretary of War (1904-08), 27th President of the U. S. (1909-13), defeated Republican nominee for President (1912), Kent professor of law at Yale (1913-21). Chief Justice (1921-30). His judicial tendency: toward a cheerful conservatism, trying to keep-up-with-the times without violating tradition. Outstanding decisions: none. Reason...
...member of the permanent Court of International Justice (1926), chairman of the U. S. delegation to the sixth Pan-American Conference at Havana (1928), president of the American Bar Association (1924-25), a prime campaigner for Herbert Hoover (1928). His judicial tendency: toward a conservatism less cheerful than Mr. Taft...
...promote "the advancement of art and literature," the Century selects members on the basis of cultural superiority. Its atmosphere of wealthy exclusiveness is matched only by its reputation for eminent respectability. Famed among its members are Herbert Clark Hoover, John Pierpont Morgan, George Woodward Wickersham, William Howard Taft, John William Davis, Henry Lewis Stimson. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Thomas William Lamont, Dwight Whitney Morrow, Owen D. Young, Elihu Root, Nicholas Murray Butler, Bishop William Thomas Manning...
Perhaps the Harvard president is a little radical in the limits he would place on college athletics, but he voices a protest to the over emphasis of sports for gate receipts that is worthy of careful consideration by every university in this country. William Howard Taft, a young man, has also recently taken a public stand against commercialism in college athletics. He laments the fact that so many men are sacrificing educational advantages by alloting too much of their time to sports. Daily Northwestern...
...portrait of the great chief justice is regarded as notable; it shows him at the age of 83, and was made in 1859 for his daughter. On the same wall are portraits of Justices Story, Gray, McKenna; Brown, Holmes, Moody, Brandeis, and Sanford, and of Chief Justice Fuller and Taft, all of the United States Supreme Bench. Chief Justice Fuller and Justices Brown, Gray, Brandeis, Holmes; Story, Sanford, and Moody were either professors at Harvard or graduates of the School. Justice Benjamin R. Curtis, A.B. 1829, LL.B. '32, is the only graduate of the Law School...