Word: tafts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...before the SEC filed its civil complaint in a New York federal court, Thayer resigned as the Pentagon's No. 2 man. Thayer termed the charges "entirely without merit" and vowed to fight them. At week's end his replacement had been named: William Howard Taft IV, the self-effacing chief counsel of the Defense Department, a protégé of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and great-grandson of the 27th President...
...NOTEBOOK: The Crimson upped its record to 5-3, Colby is 1-1. The team travelled to Aspen, Colo over vacation and played three games. During one contest, defenseman Deb Taft was cut by a skate blade just over her eye and took 22 stitches. The Crimson next faces off Saturday at Dartmouth. At Bright Center Harvard 1 2 1 4 Colby...
...President. F.D.R. moved to second place, and Washington fell to third. Also rated as great: Jefferson, who supplanted Wilson in the top four. Rated as near great: Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson, Jackson, Truman. Above average: John Adams, Lyndon Johnson, Eisenhower, Polk, Kennedy, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Cleveland. Average: McKinley, Taft, Van Buren, Hoover, Hayes, Arthur, Ford...
...convention. But the Republicans were not to recapture the White House for another four years so the field was crowded. He won only the Wisconsin and Nebraska primaries but his delegates split the party which went to the convention with the nomination still in doubt. Ohio Sen. Robert A. Taft offered him the second spot on the ticket in exchange for his delegates but Stassen refused and forced a second and third ballot. But before the third, Taft saw his support eroding and, still unable to secure Stassen's support, conceded the nomination to New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey...
Some customers said they had been attracted by the prestigious company that the Sentinel concerns kept. Sentinel was a client of the prominent Wall Street law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, which has also counseled the likes of Holiday Inns, Occidental Petroleum and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation. Peat, Marwick, Mitchell...