Word: taggart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McNutt Presidential boom started on schedule January 21 when the State Democratic Committee met at the late Senator Tom Taggart's rococo hotel at French Lick Springs, accepted the resignation of Son Tom Taggart Jr. as national committeeman, elected as his successor Indianapolis Lawyer Frank McHale, deep-voiced, burly onetime University of Michigan footballer, original McNutt-for-President man. Also proceeding on schedule was the campaign against Senator Van Nuys, long on the outs with the McNutt-Townsend-Minton "two percent club," the machine organization to which State employes kick back that share of their salary. Having forfeited...
Situated across the street from the great French Lick Springs Hotel belonging to Indiana's late Democratic Boss Tom Taggart, Brown's prospered. Spring and autumn, businessmen and politicians of the Midwest flocked to French Lick to drink Pluto water, rest, golf, enjoy themselves losing money at Brown's. Illinois' politicians still confer there regularly...
Contrary in popular opinion, David Taggart Dickinson '18, who is frequently to be seen tearing around Cambridge in his bright red three-wheeled "gig" and ten gallon hat, has no connection with the Fire Department. However, since early boyhood, fires have been his hobby, and at present he is unquestionably the foremost authority in Cambridge on their causes and prevention...
Boss v. Champ. Outside of city politics there are few potent bosses left in the U. S.?bosses who can stand and deliver a State election as Boies Penrose in Pennsylvania or Tom Taggart in Indiana did in their day. Last week a primary showed that Missouri could still lay claim to such an oldtime boss in the person of "Big Tom" Pendergast, master of Kansas City and mixer of most of that city's concrete...
...itinerary began fortnight ago when he detrained one mid-afternoon at Indianapolis. In five and a half hours, he visited the city post office, promised construction of an addition to it, paid a courtesy call on Catholic Bishop Ritter, sent picture postcards to his children, conferred with Tom Taggart Jr., attended the largest banquet (2,100 covers) ever served in the Claypool Hotel, delivered a speech denouncing Indiana's Republican Senator Robinson for obstructing the New Deal...