The fictional Taft University, where Susan teaches, was also a primary setting for the Spenser novel Playmates, and the non-Spenser novel Love and Glory.

Along with his judgeship, between 1896 and 1900 Taft also served as the first dean and a professor of constitutional law at the University of Cincinnati.

This appointment allowed Taft to remain involved in the Philippines and Roosevelt also assured Taft he would support his later appointment to the Court, while Taft agreed to support Roosevelt in the Presidential election of 1904.

Taft also had a disagreement with Roosevelt over the latter's conclusion of an executive agreement with the Dominican Republic, in lieu of what Taft thought should have been a treaty, requiring ratification by the Senate.

Taft also showed his political ineptness by choosing Frank Hitchcock to be Chairman of the Republican Party.

Taft, in fashioning his cabinet, showed also that he was not unwilling to depart to some degree from Roosevelt's progressivism ; he named an anti-progressive, Philander Chase Knox Secretary of State, who had primary influence over other appointments.

But his devotion to the law also often made Taft a slave to precedent, and less adroit in politics than Roosevelt ; he therefore lacked the flexibility, creativity and personal magnetism of his mentor, not to mention the publicity devices, the dedicated supporters, and the broad base of public support that made Roosevelt so formidable.

The business community and the conservative wing of the party were also alienated from Taft and contributions to the GOP dried up.

" Taft also responded to criticism from party leaders, saying, " I do not give a tinker's damn whether it injures my political prospects or not.

Supported by President William Howard Taft, the law also expanded on the powers granted to the ICC in the 1906 Hepburn Act.

Jennings is alerted to Taft's activities and orders that Taft be also removed.

This law was urged by Chief Justice William Howard Taft, and it also reorganized many other things in the federal court system.

During his House tenure, he also expressed his support for price controls, a higher minimum wage, the Marshall Plan, and aid to Turkey and Greece ; he opposed the House Un-American Activities Committee, the Taft – Hartley Act, and the Twenty-second Amendment.

Taft was also the site of a military airfield named Gardner Field which was used to train pilots during World War II.

It also had the fifty-sixth most Haitians in the US, at 2. 50 % ( tied with five other areas in the US, including Plantation and Taft, FL ,) while it had the twentieth highest percentage of Nicaraguans, at 2. 20 % of all residents.

Also on that journey were several families who remained in the still raw settlement that would become Chicago, including that of Dexter Graves who is memorialized in Graceland Cemetery by the well-known Lorado Taft statue " Eternal Silence " ( also known as " the Dexter Graves Monument ").

) The Taft family became an American political dynasty, especially in Ohio, but also in Iowa, Rhode Island, Vermont, and other states.

President William Howard Taft was a descendant and also was a descendant of George Aldrich.

He also lost to Woodrow Wilson, and William H. Taft.

Taft, often called the " Friendliest Cotton-Pickin ' Town in Texas ", is not only rich in cotton, but also gas and oil resources.

Petrillo also organized a second recording ban in 1948 ( from January 1 to December 14 ), in response to the Taft – Hartley Act.

Memorial services were also held for presidents Warren G. Harding, William Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Harry S Truman, and Richard M. Nixon.

The Taft Administration saw the huge Honduran debt, over $ 120 miilion, as a contributing factor to this instability and began efforts to refinance the largely British debt with provisions for a United States customs receivership or some similar arrangement.

After he finally broke with Taft, Roosevelt saw himself as the only person who could save the Republican party from defeat in the upcoming Presidential election and announced himself as a candidate for the Republican nomination.

However, unlike his predecessor ( Theodore Roosevelt ), Taft felt that the president should not dictate lawmaking and should leave Congress free to act as it saw fit.

However, Taft saw his mission as not only stopping the growth of the New Deal but also eliminating many of the government programs that had already come from it.

The 1912 Republican convention saw the business-oriented faction supporting William Howard Taft turn back a challenge from former president Theodore Roosevelt, who boasted broader popular support and even won a primary in Taft's home state of Ohio.

Fairbanks withdrew from the race, and would later support Taft for re-election against Roosevelt in the 1912 election.

Taft usually proved a less adroit politician than Roosevelt and lacked the energy and personal magnetism, not to mention the publicity devices, the dedicated supporters, and the broad base of public support that made Roosevelt so formidable.

Consequently, Taft lost the support of antitrust reformers ( who disliked his conservative rhetoric ), of big business ( which disliked his actions ), and of Roosevelt, who felt humiliated by his protégé.

Roosevelt, however, had delayed too long, and Taft had already won the support of most party leaders in the country.

While Roosevelt was popular with the public, most Republican politicians and party leaders supported Taft, and their support proved difficult to counter in states without primaries.

His family and supporters threw their support to Roosevelt's old military companion, General Leonard Wood, who was ultimately defeated by Taft supporter Warren G. Harding.

Riding a wave of popular support for fellow Republican Roosevelt, Taft won an easy victory in his 1908 bid for the presidency.

During the campaign, Taft undercut Bryan's liberal support by accepting some of his reformist ideas, and Roosevelt's progressive policies blurred the distinctions between the parties.

Joseph B. Foraker of Ohio, seeking Taft's support in his senatorial re-election, made an appearance with Taft, creating the impression Taft was allied with the big business trusts.

To the surprise of observers who thought Roosevelt had unstoppable momentum, Taft determined he would not simply step aside for the popular ex-President, despite the diminished support he had in the party.

It is not clear if Roosevelt cost fellow Republican Taft, or fellow progressive Wilson more support.

A May 8 Gallup poll showed Dewey at 67 % support among Republicans, followed by Vandenberg and Taft, with Willkie at a mere 3 %.

On the second and third ballots Dewey's support dwindled, as his delegates went to either Taft or Willkie, with most favoring Willkie.

Incumbent President William Howard Taft was renominated by the Republican Party with the support of its conservative wing.

Taft had the support of the bulk of the party organizations in the Southern states.

Thus, with the support of convention chairman Elihu Root, Taft's supporters outvoted Roosevelt's men, and the convention renominated incumbents William Howard Taft and James S. Sherman, making Sherman the first sitting vice-president to be nominated for re-election since John C. Calhoun in 1828.

Even so, Willkie remained a long-shot candidate ; the May 8 Gallup Poll showed Dewey at 67 % support among Republicans, followed by Vandenberg and Taft, with Willkie at only 3 %.