Taft ignored the risks and tackled the tariff boldly, on the one hand encouraging reformers to fight for lower rates, and then cutting deals with conservative leaders that kept overall rates high.

In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Taft Secretary of War in an effort to groom Taft, then his close political ally, into his handpicked presidential successor.

Taft then persuaded Congress to appropriate more than $ 7 million to purchase these lands, which he sold to Filipinos on easy terms.

Taft's administration got a political boost after 25 western railroads announced an intent to raise rates by 20 %, and Taft responded, first with a threat to enforce the Sherman Antitrust Act against them ; he then negotiated a settlement whereby they agreed to submit delayed rate requests to a new Interstate Commerce Commission having authority over rate requests.

Taft then requested, and received, approval and funding to create the Commission on Economy and Efficiency to study the budgeting process.

In the contest for the Republican nomination, President William Howard Taft defeated former president Theodore Roosevelt, who then ran as a Bull Moose Party candidate, which assisted in Wilson's success in the electoral college.

As 1944 began the frontrunners for the Republican nomination appeared to be Wendell Willkie, the party's 1940 candidate, Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, the leader of the party's conservatives, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the leader of the party's powerful, moderate eastern establishment, General Douglas MacArthur, then serving as an Allied commander in the Pacific theater of the war, and former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, then serving as a U. S. naval officer in the Pacific.

He then made the strategic mistake of trying to beat Taft in Ohio, Taft's home state.

Dewey then made Bricker ( who was supported by Taft ) his running mate.

Commission president William H. Taft – who was then Chief Justice of the United States – dedicated the Memorial on May 30, 1922 and presented it to President Warren G. Harding, who accepted it on behalf of the American people.

President William Howard Taft of the US then wrote publicly to the Diamond Match Company asking them to release the patent for the good of mankind, which they did in 1911.

In the bar fight scene, Taft grasps one of his opponents in the groin eliciting the unlikely exclamation " My nuts " and then immediately kicks another man in the groin causing him to say " My balls ".

The main antagonist in the fight scene then brags to Taft that he has " A big pair of balls " right between his legs, and Taft talks about his opponents " balls " a few times while challenging him to a " hand slap " game.

Still, Eisenhower defeated Taft for the nomination ; Dirksen then supported Eisenhower's candidacy.

He graduated from Elk Hills School, June 1951 and then entered Taft High School in the fall.

Twine moved to Muskogee, and the citizens voted to rename the town as Taft, for President William Howard Taft, who was then Secretary of War in the Theodore Roosevelt administration.

Taft Broadcasting then purchased in Warren County, Ohio, for $ 3. 2 million.

Don Van Vliet asks a girl and boy where they're from, to which the boy, then Taft High student Bob Sobo ( son of then Reseda High art teacher & later tennis coach as well, Albert Sobo, ztl ) replies, " Reseda ".

When President Harry Truman vetoed it, Taft then convinced both houses of Congress to override the veto.

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.

The left wing of the Republican Party began agitating against Taft.

Taft indicated to Roosevelt he wanted to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, not President, but there was no vacancy and Roosevelt had other plans – in 1907 he began touting Taft as the best choice for the Presidential nomination by the party.

Progressives within the Republican Party began to actively oppose against Taft.

On the fourth ballot Willkie surged into first place, with Taft close behind ; other candidates began to drop out in favor of the two frontrunners.

( Note: Lake Gusher was formed when Taft began its early drills, first finding water, which was very much needed in the area and one of the few reason along with prostitution and booze that Taft survived while surrounding towns vanished overnight.

The town's second weekly newspaper, the Taft Independent, began publication on July 4, 2006.

After the war, in 1946, the celebrations began again and the Taft District Chamber of Commerce made them permanent.

In 1941 Lopez's Orchestra began a residency at the Taft Hotel in Manhattan that would last 20 years.

He began legal practice in Pontiac, where for six months he worked alone with considerable success, and then formed a partnership with Judge Levi Taft and Hon.

In 1995, the Manila Metro Rail Transit System began construction, being built over EDSA from North Avenue to Taft Avenue during the presidency of Joseph Estrada.

WLVQ itself began on April 1, 1959 as WTVN-FM, owned by Taft Broadcasting Company along with sister stations and WTVN-TV ( now WSYX ).

In 1911, William Howard Taft began the tradition of presidents throwing out the ceremonial first pitch of the baseball season at Griffith Stadium.

However, when the Taft Broadcasting Company of Cincinnati, Ohio began building Kings Island Amusement Park in nearby Mason, Ohio, less than a 2-hour drive from Parker's site, financing for Parker's venture dried up.

He began his musical career at radio station KTKR 1310 AM in Taft and went on to become one of the founding members of The Rappers Rapp Group.

Butt's housemate and friend Francis Davis Millet ( himself one of Taft's circle ) asked Taft to give him a leave of absence to recuperate before the presidential primaries began.

In March 1909, President William Howard Taft began his administration by replacing Theodore Roosevelt's appointed Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield ( son of the assassinated Republican president, James Garfield ) with Richard Ballinger, a former Mayor of Seattle who had served as Commissioner of the General Land Office ( GLO ) under Secretary Garfield.

Chris Taft was born in Brooklyn, New York, and began his college career at the University of Pittsburgh after graduating from Xaverian High School in Brooklyn.

Taft went to the Chicago Annual Predraft Camp which began his post-college career.

Taft responded by buying Coney Island outright in 1969, and construction began the following year on the new site located in Deerfield Township of Warren County north of Cincinnati on Interstate 71.

Shortly after his inauguration in 1909, President William Taft began work to fulfill the plank in his party's platform to grant Arizona statehood.

While serving as the War Secretary Taft generally concentrated on major developments, including the Philippines and the Panama Canal, to the detriment of departmental housekeeping problems, including factionalism within the Department, of which Roosevelt was aware.

In another instance, Ezra Taft Benson left active status in the quorum for a time when he was serving as the United States Secretary of Agriculture in the Eisenhower administration.

In addition to his judicial and legal activities, Justice Wright was appointed by Governor Bob Taft to serve on the Ohio Chemical Dependency Professionals Board from 2003 to 2006 and, at the time of his death, he was serving on the Ohio Public Defender Commission pursuant to an appointment from the Supreme Court.

Prior to this, O ' Connor served as an Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court and as the 61st Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, serving under Governor Bob Taft.

When he returned to Cincinnati after serving for President Truman, he joined the law firm Taft, Stettinius, and Hollister, which had been founded by another prominent Cincinnati politician, Robert Taft, and became its managing partner.

During his time serving Roosevelt and Taft, Butt wrote almost daily letters to his sister Clara.

The line commences at North Avenue and ends at Taft Avenue ( Taft on the map ), serving the cities that EDSA passes through: Quezon City, Mandaluyong, Makati, and Pasay.