Taft assumed a prominent role in problem solving, assuming on some occasions the role of acting Secretary of State, while declining repeated offers from Roosevelt to serve on the Supreme Court.

Taft assumed control of channel 29 in mid-1969 and changed the calls to WTAF-TV ( for TAFt ).

The board is currently chaired by William H. Taft IV.

Taft promptly appointed members to serve on the tariff board.

Taft asserted that the school board had overstepped their boundaries in their decision to continue the reading of the Bible in public schools.

He also traveled extensively, worldwide ; was a board member of the Taft Institute for Government and the Hoover Institution for War, Revolution, and Peace ; and served on the board of and was elected president of the United States Association of Former Members of Congress.

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

His effectiveness in manipulating information hostile to his boss, President William Howard Taft, led to his firing in January 1910.

Former Eisenhower cabinet member Ezra Taft Benson — a leading Mormon — spoke in favor of the John Birch Society, but in January 1963 the LDS church issued a statement distancing itself from the Society.

That night, on 26 January 1946, Kaleta scored four goals against the Maple Leafs and Taft made good on his offer.

Robert Alphonso " Bob " Taft II ( born January 8, 1942 ) is an Ohio Republican Party politician.

On January 28, Taft gave permission to destroy the trees, and they were burned.

She was succeeded by Bob Taft, who was elected Governor during the same election cycle and was waiting to be sworn in on January 11, 1999.

McKenna resigned from the Court in January 1925 at the suggestion of Chief Justice William Howard Taft.

Taft was then appointed Deputy Secretary of Defense and served from January 1984 to April 1989.

In a January 11, 2002, memo, Taft opposed Department of Justice lawyers to argue that the president could not " suspend " U. S. obligations to respect the Geneva Conventions and that a legal argument to do so was " legally flawed and procedurally impossible.

Joseph Rucker Lamar ( October 15, 1857 – January 2, 1916 ) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court appointed by President William Howard Taft.

" Following the resignation of Joseph T. Deters as state treasurer, Taft appointed Bradley to the post, effective January 2005.

He was promoted to the position of Surgeon ( 17 May 1909 ), and after Wyman died unexpectedly, President William Howard Taft nominated Blue to serve as Surgeon General ( 13 January 1912 through 3 March 1920 ).

Taft told the crowd at the swearing on January 5, " Bruce has been actively engaged in designing our program for jobs creation, tax reform and economic development.

President Taft gave the order to burn the trees on January 28.

Ohio Governor Bob Taft signed the bill by the House on January 31.

In this building, at 1: 35 P. M., January 6, 1912, President William Taft signed the proclamation admitting New Mexico as the 47th state of the Union.

Jacob McGavock Dickinson ( January 30, 1851 – December 13, 1928 ) was United States Secretary of War under President William Howard Taft from 1909 to 1911.

After losing a bid to purchase then-CBS affiliate WTVJ ( then on channel 4 ) from then-owner Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., CBS made a half-hearted offer to buy WCIX from Taft in January 1987.

Before he did so he had declined the chief justiceship of the United States court of claims tendered him by President Taft ( January 1913 ).

Taft played in only 17 games in his rookie season as a result of back spasms that ended his season in early January.

On December 21, 2009, Avon played Taft School in the first ever hockey game played at Fenway Park.

The Mittersill Ski Area and Taft CCC Ski Trail were incorporated into the Cannon Mountain Ski Area in 2009.

Taft has reached 9 CIF Los Angeles City Section Basketball Championships in it's history 1979, 1980, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and have sent many players to NCAA Division I programs, and sent all-city point guard Jordan Farmar to the NBA.

His paternal grandfather was Peter Rawson Taft, a descendant of Robert Taft I, the first Taft in America, who settled in Colonial Massachusetts.

*** Peter Rawson Taft, great-great-grandson of Robert Sr, grandfather of President Taft, and a Vermont legislator

Guest speakers such as Jay Thomas, authors Pat Conroy, Tony Hillerman, Sister Helen Prejean, Orson Scott Card, Dana Gioia, Chaim Potok, former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin, former New Orleans Mayor and alumnus Marc Morial, actor Jim Caviezel, theologian George Weigel, Jesuit Superior General Peter Hans Kolvenbach, ESPN announcer Mike Tirico, theologian and former U. S. Ambassador Michael Novak, and United States President William Howard Taft have addressed the student body.

Born in Townshend, Vermont, the son of Peter Rawson Taft of the powerful Taft family, he graduated from Yale College in 1833, where he also was a tutor 1835-37.

They had five daughters, Eleanor Kellogg Taft, Sylvia Howard Taft, Lucia Chase Taft, Cynthia Herron Taft, Rosalyn Rawson Taft, and two sons, Seth Chase Taft and Peter Rawson Taft III.

Peter W. Bronson, a conservative columnist for The Cincinnati Enquirer, wrote " Hackett's surprising finish was less a repudiation of Bush than a repudiation of Ohio Governor Bob Taft, whose name is now officially radioactive poison.

A Dr. Charles Taft clambered up on the stage and got the actors to hoist him up to the box.

* 1899 – Ezra Taft Benson, American missionary and politician, 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( d. 1994 )

In the United States, the administration of President William Howard Taft was progressive conservative and he described himself as " a believer in progressive conservatism " and President Dwight D. Eisenhower declared himself an advocate of " progressive conservatism ".

* Robert M. Timm, Hopland Research & Extension Center, University of California, Hopland, California ; Rex O. Baker, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona ( retired ), Corona, California ; Joe R. Bennett, USDA APHIS Wildlife Services, Taft, California ; and Craig C. Coolahan, USDA APHIS Wildlife Services, Sacramento, California, " Coyote Attacks: An Increasing Suburban Problem " ( March 3, 2004 ).

In 1908, he was offered the vice-presidential nomination by William Howard Taft, but he declined it to run again for Governor.

Eisenhower entered the 1952 presidential race as a Republican, to counter the non-interventionism of Senator Robert A. Taft, and to crusade against " Communism, Korea and corruption ".

A " Draft Eisenhower " movement in the Republican Party persuaded him to declare his candidacy in the 1952 presidential election to counter the candidacy of non-interventionist Senator Robert Taft.

Eisenhower defeated Taft for the nomination, having won critical delegate votes from Texas.

In defeating Taft for the nomination, it became necessary for Eisenhower to appease the right wing Old Guard of the Republican Party ; his selection of Richard M. Nixon as the Vice-President on the ticket was designed in part for that purpose.

( The other Presidents who did not have prior elected office were Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover.

Senator Taft assisted the President greatly in working with the Old Guard, and was sorely missed when his death left Eisenhower with his successor William Knowland, whom Eisenhower disliked.

Thus, the 11th edition is " dedicated by Permission to His Majesty George the Fifth, King of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, and to William Howard Taft, President of the United States of America.

Madero successfully imported arms from the United States, with the American government under William Howard Taft doing little to halt the flow of arms to the Mexican revolutionaries.

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.

Hoover is the most recent cabinet secretary to be elected President of the United States, as well as one of only two Presidents ( along with William Howard Taft ) to have been elected without previous electoral experience or high military rank.

Rejecting the adversarial stance of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson, he sought to make the Commerce Department a powerful service organization, empowered to forge cooperative voluntary partnerships between government and business.

* 1921 – U. S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft Chief Justice of the United States.