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 began serving on the newly created United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in 1891 ; he was confirmed by the Senate on March 17, 1892, and received his commission that same day.

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.

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.

Popular incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt, honoring a promise not to seek a third term, persuaded the Republican Party to nominate William Howard Taft, his close friend and Secretary of War, to become his successor.

Influential Californians, including Walter L. Huber, persuaded the federal government to stop the demolition and in 1911, President William Howard Taft protected the area as a National Monument.

In 1944, Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, still in his first term, persuaded Republicans to revive their Steering Committee, and he became its Chairman.

That year, Blackwell considered a run for governor, but Ohio Republican Party chairman Robert T. Bennett persuaded Blackwell to run for secretary of state instead, leaving the governorship open to Bob Taft.

President William Howard Taft devoted a considerable portion of his First Annual Message to Congress ( December 7, 1909 ) to the Liberian question, noting the close historical ties between the two countries that gave an opening for a wider intervention:

The plan encountered sharp opposition in Congress, mostly from the portion of the Republican Party led by Robert A. Taft that advocated a more isolationist policy and was weary of massive government spending.

On June 16, 1909, President William Howard Taft, in an address to Congress, proposed a 2 % federal income tax on corporations by way of an excise tax and a constitutional amendment to allow the previously enacted income tax.

Taft ignored the political effects and kept the tariff rates on his agenda ( he had raised expectations of lower rates in the campaign ); he passively encouraged congressional reformers to draft bills including lower rates, while broadcasting a willingness to compromise with conservative leaders in the Congress, who wanted to keep tariff rates high.

Taft described this approach as his " policy of harmony " with the Congress.

A supporter of free immigration, Taft vetoed a law passed by Congress and supported by labor unions that would have restricted unskilled laborers by imposing a literacy test.

President William Howard Taft called Congress into a special session in 1909 shortly after his inauguration to discuss the issue.

Although Taft consulted Congress during its deliberations on the bill to a certain extent, critics charged that he ought to have imposed more of his own recommendations ( that is, more lowered schedules ) on the bill.

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.

The Taft – Hartley Act amended the National Labor Relations Act ( NLRA ; informally the Wagner Act ), which Congress passed in 1935.

Taft – Hartley was one of more than 250 union-related bills pending in both houses of Congress in 1947.

The Congress that passed the Taft – Hartley Amendments considered repealing the Norris-LaGuardia Act to the extent necessary to permit courts to issue injunctions against strikes violating a no-strike clause, but chose not to do so.

President Harry Truman vetoed Taft – Hartley, but Congress overrode his veto.

Led in Congress by Senator Robert A. Taft and the Conservative coalition, they blocked almost all New Deal proposals after 1936, and shut down the WPA, CCC and many other programs by 1943.

In 1947, well before McCarthy became active, the Conservative Coalition in Congress passed the Taft Hartley Act, designed to balance the rights of management and unions, and delegitimizing Communist union leaders.

The Republicans took control of Congress in a landslide in 1946 and passed the Taft – Hartley Act over his veto.

Although Taft fully supported the American war effort after Pearl Harbor and the declaration of war on Japan by the U. S. Congress on December 8, 1941, he continued to harbor a deep suspicion of American involvement in postwar military alliances with other nations, including NATO.

When the Republicans took control of Congress in 1947, Taft focused on labor-management relations as Chair of the Senate Labor Committee.

Taft displayed all of his parliamentary skills in getting the bill through Congress.

Prior to the passage of the Taft – Hartley Act by Congress over President Harry S. Truman's veto in 1947, unions and employers covered by the National Labor Relations Act could lawfully agree to a closed shop, in which employees at unionized workplaces must be members of the union as a condition of employment.

Gilligan narrowly lost his re-election bid to the Ninetieth Congress in 1966 to Republican Robert Taft Jr. after the Republican-controlled Ohio General Assembly redrew his district to favor the Republican Party.

They were known for throwing spartan but large parties that were attended by members of Congress, justices of the Supreme Court, and President Taft himself.

Congress amended the Act in 1947 through the Taft – Hartley Act to give workers the ability to decertify an already recognized or certified union as well.