Word: tafts
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...stamp of a man devoted to the needs of the people. His lieutenants are singularly suited to carry forth a progressive program; they would well merit the name "brain trust," were that name not in such ill repute. And who would not prefer William Allen White and Charles Taft to [Rexford] Tugwell...
...Hampshire sporting a hairstyle that seemed 20 years old, his fingers itched to attack the mop. "How come you don't see any bald men among the top candidates?" asks the hair stylist. Good point. Baldie Ike made his mark in the military and then defeated Baldies Taft and Stevenson on his way to the White House. End of the baldie run.The barber almost saved Gerald Ford in the campaign of 1976. He had Ford dump the Vitalis, and then he trimmed the President closer on the sides and in the back, poufing up the thinning top. But by that...
...ground commemorating Artist Francis Millet and Archibald Willingham Butt. Since the only other such commemoration on the grounds is the statue of Andrew Jackson, the fountain bore investigating. Archie Butt, it turns out, was a popular bachelor who served as White House military aide for both Theodore Roosevelt and Taft. Returning from a vacation in Europe with his friend Millet, he booked passage on the Titanic. Butt would have continued to elude historians had he not left three volumes of intimate correspondence of his years in the White House. To Author Seale, Archie Butt is a genuine hero...
Lowell's convictions, however, were those of his class (he was one of those Lowells who, via the Cabots, "talk only to God," and it was in his office that a visitor was told, "President Lowell has gone to Washington to call on Mr. Taft"). When the Governor of Massachusetts asked Lowell to head a committee to determine whether the patently unfair trial of Sacco and Vanzetti had in fact been fair, Lowell concluded that it had. And when bigoted alumni kept complaining about the number of Jews at Harvard (the proportion had reached 22% by 1922), Lowell publicly called...
...prepared for [Khadafy's] response and we will react depending on what it is," said Taft, who was interviewed for a Voice of America program...