Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back from India at his head, what could the poor dog fancier say? He could not prove that he had not uttered the quoted words. His speech had never existed on paper. Nobody had made a movietone of it-such as the one which caught Chief Justice William Howard Taft's error when administering the Presidential Oath to Herbert Clark Hoover (TIME, March 25). All that flustered Earl Russell could do was to beg newspaper reporters for their notes. These proved, like all human testimony, to be conflicting. But finally there was found a page of scraggly shorthand symbols...
...Dinner in honor of Chief Justice Taft and the Supreme Court at the White House, Washington...
Died. Charles Phelps Taft, 86, publisher of the Cincinnati Times-Star, half-brother of Chief Justice William Howard Taft; at Cincinnati; of pneumonia...
...nearly 50 years, Charles Phelps Taft of Cincinnati left his white Georgian house in prim Pike Street each morning and made his way to his newspaper office, the Times-Star. Neat, small, white-bearded, he was secure in the knowledge that his was one of the Great U. S. Families, for if Lowells and Cabots dominate Boston, it may be said in Cincinnati that Tafts speak only to Longworths. Half-brother of the 27th President of the U. S.. a philanthropist and pillar of right in his community, Publisher Taft dedicated his paper to conservative, rock-ribbed Republicanism...
...week before Publisher Taft's last illness, Publisher Roy Howard telephoned "the first news story from a ship at sea" from the Leviathan to his syndicate (TIME, Dec. 30). But the week before that, a Miss Ada M. Wheeler, onetime Cincinnati school teacher, "carrying with her credentials of a special correspondent," had engaged the Times-Star's city room in conversation when the Leviathan's ship-to-shore telephone service was inaugurated. Afraid that "a seasick newspaperman on board . . . might recover and 'beat me to it,' " she spoke to Managing Editor Moses Strauss for three...