Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vital stats. We get action photos. We get background and stuff. The T and G Backfield. We release to newspapers, to sports pubs, to local radio and TV, to the networks. The whole enchilada. Taft Robinson and Gary Harkness. I like the sound of those names. Some names produce a negative reaction in my mind. Cyd Charisse, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Xerxes. But Taft-and-Gary has a cute little ring to it. I know I like it, and I may even love...
...News Inquiry. A report on amnesty for deserters and draft dodgers, with Sen. Robert Taft (R-Ohio) and historian Henry Steele Commager 8:30, April 24. Chan...
...years, the opening of the major league baseball season has been as much an American rite of spring as viewing the cherry blossoms in Washington. To sentimentalists, the first crack of bat against ball is a sweet sound heard across the nation. To every President since William Howard Taft, opening day has also meant a chance to toss out the first ball and make a hit with the fans. But this year's scheduled opening came and went last week with no hits, no runs, no President,* and one called strike...
...will talk about it and the White House has taken a quietly apprehensive hands-off stand, but a deepening intraparty Republican squabble in Ohio could jeopardize Nixon's re-election chances in November. The trouble is the result of the bitter 1970 primary fight between Ohio Senator Robert Taft Jr. and Former Governor James Rhodes, and a series of G.O.P. financial scandals, all of which has left the party in a shambles. Now Taft is maneuvering to wrest power from the Rhodes-influenced Republican state central committee. He plans to run for the 46-member committee in hopes that...
Bridges probably would have kept the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union out even longer had the 18-week dispute not brought the Nixon Administration and Congress to the brink of tough antistrike legislation. Last fall Nixon invoked the Taft-Hartley Act's 80-day cooling-off period to suspend the West Coast dock walkout. When it expired on Christmas Day and the strike resumed last month, the President revived a proposal sent to Congress last year and menacingly renamed it "The Crippling Strikes Prevention Act." A key provision would have enabled the President to name...