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...TaFT 3, bRyaN...
Moncreiff was born in Evanston, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. He remained there until 1942, when his father was called to diplomatic service in Washington. Young Moncreiff went to public high school in the capital and then on to Yale, where his political hero was Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, "Mr. Republican." "I was a political moron in college, a carbon copy of my father," he admits...
After turning down offers from the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers, he worked his way through Yale Law School as an assistant varsity-football coach and freshman boxing coach. Among his football players were Senators Robert Taft Jr. of Ohio and William Proxmire of Wisconsin. With a friend, Ford set up a law practice in Grand Rapids in 1941, helped elect a reform slate of Republican candidates for local office, and then entered the Navy. When the war ended, Ford returned home to his law practice...
...only exception was 1972. In 1900 McKinley (5 letters) beat Bryan (2). Four years later Roosevelt (7) handled Parker (4). Bryan was such a weak candidate that in 1908 he even lost to Taft (3). Wilson (5) beat Taft in 1912. Roosevelt ran that year, too--but as a Progressive. Wilson was reelected in 1916, beating Hughes (3). Harding (3) took Cox (2) in 1920, Coolidge (5) beat Davis (2) in 1924, and Hoover (4) beat Smith...
...program has been criticized on Capitol Hill by Republican Senators Jacob Javits of New York, Robert Taft Jr. of Ohio, and others. Critics are upset by reports of abuses and by the fact that the benefits are being paid by taxpayers and not the coal companies. The Government will pay lifetime benefits for any miner who applies up to next Jan. 1; after that, the coal-mining companies are supposed to pay any new claimants. But the companies may even avoid doing that. Carl Perkins, a Democratic Congressman from Kentucky, is talking about submitting a bill that would delay...