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Bryn Mawr College's Helen Taft Manning, 65, two-time dean (1917-19, 1925-41) and two-time acting president (1919-20, 1929-30), who might well have been president had she not preferred to stick to her first love, studying and teaching history. The only daughter of William Howard Taft, Helen was an undergraduate at Bryn Mawr when, at the age of 18, she was called to serve as her father's hostess in the White House. Three years later she went back to take her bachelor's degree, followed by graduate study at Yale, marriage...
...Urged Taft-Hartley Act amendments to ban the union shop and make unions subject to antitrust laws-changes that Labor Secretary James Mitchell has plainly and publicly opposed...
Clinton E. Jencks, Southwestern official of the Red-led Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers, would probably be surprised if anyone seriously accused him of being a nonCommunist. But in 1950 Jencks signed a non-Communist affidavit under the Taft-Hartley law-and was duly indicted in El Paso, convicted of perjury and sentenced to five years in prison. Last week the Supreme Court granted a new trial to Defendant Jencks, and in so doing knocked over applecarts all across the U.S. security scene...
...first White House Autogiro landing was made April 22, 1931, when James Ray stepped out of a Pitcairn to receive the 1930 Collier Trophy from President Hoover. President Taft witnessed the first airplane landing there (by Harry Atwood...
Fleming's figures were underlined in a press conference in Washington where Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson took pride in the fact that his department this fiscal year is selling 7,500,000 bales of surplus cotton abroad v. total U.S. cotton exports last year of 2,200,000 bales. But Benson conceded that the Government will lose $530 million by selling cotton for an average of $115 a bale v. the Government cost...