Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Challenged, in bristling manner, Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft's ability to balance the U. S. budget; offered Mr. Taft "a handsome prize" if he would show the President how it could be done...
Tortoisy Mr. Taft was nowhere. He had piled one inept act on another, bumbled when the script called for a gag, stumbled over his own and others' feet. In Iowa he denounced corn loans the day the Agriculture Department unloosed $70,000,000 in corn loans to Iowa; in Kansas City he crossed a year-old A. F. of L. picket line for no good reason; in Texas he shot his first deer, his first turkey, was photographed in business suit and starched collar gingerly holding the dead bird-a picture that brought a wave of nostalgic memories...
Meanwhile Tortoise Taft slogged quietly along under the Southern sun. Prostrate in his wake lay the Republican delegations from at least seven Southern (and wholly Democratic) States; four more were ready to flop his way. With these 182 votes, plus Ohio's 52, plus at least 100 miscellaneous pledges, Tortoise Taft appeared to have about 300 ballots-nearly a solid third of the G. O. P.'s 1,000 convention votes. Mr. Dewey had only New York's 92-and a fourth of these were still uncertain...
...Taft this week received the Montclair-Yale Bowl-trophy awarded annually to the graduate who has "made his Y in life"-to the dopesters of the 1940 finish, the Tortoise's chances seemed better than the Hare...
...LIFE AND TIMES OF WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT - Henry F. Pringle - Farrar & Rinehart (2 vols...