Word: tafts
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Henning joined the Trib in 1899, a cub from Chicago's City News Bureau. After a stint at general assignments and politics, he went to Washington and became bureau chief in 1914. Henning was one of the favored reporters William Howard Taft called in for press conferences around the Cabinet table. There, Taft regaled them with droll stories, "shaking," says Henning, "like a bowl full of jelly." Henning found Woodrow Wilson irascible and short-tempered, and Calvin Coolidge a man who "would talk your arm off if you gave him a chance...
Despite Franklin's fears, few Presidents had grown richer on the job. One who did was William Howard Taft. To incoming President Woodrow Wilson, Taft wrote helpfully: "You will find that Congress is very generous with the President. You have all your transportation paid for, and all servants in the White House except such valet and maid as you and Mrs. Wilson choose to employ . . . Your laundry is looked after in the White House. Altogether ... I have been able to save from my four years about...
Where Will We Wind Up? On the House side, Republicans were still trying groggily to get on their feet. They heard that Speaker Sam Rayburn, more confident than a lot of others, hoped to have a bill repealing the Taft-Hartley act on the floor by March 1, and would try to give Harry Truman just about everything else he wanted-with the possible exception of the whole $4 billion in new taxes. With tears actually running down his face, one angry and frustrated G.O.P. leader said: "I can't imagine what Sam Rayburn and John McCormack [majority leader...
...federal aid a year ago, left a loophole for private colleges. On the premise that states should have complete administrative control, the Commission advised that states should also be able to decide what college is private and what college isn't, which is a bit subtler than the Taft arrangement, but essentially the same...
Private schools, of course, mean Catholic schools, for the most part. If a program of high-powered federal aid goes to public schools only, the parochial system could not maintain equal educational standards. Catholic organizations are, therefore, deeply concerned with getting a share of any federal funds. Under the Taft kind of compromise, parochial schools would get stronger in some states, and weaker in others, depending on the power of local Catholic pressure groups. Supporters of aid to private schools (not Catholic alone) say that the basis of federal grants should not be public control, but public service. They maintain...