Word: cincinnatis
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...footballer became a law student and, at $6 per week, court reporter for his half-brother's (Charles Phelps Taft's*) newspaper, the Cincinnati Times. Another publisher paid $25 per week to alienate his services. He shared first honors in his class at law school, practiced with his father and got on quickly-assistant prosecuting attorney, judge of the Superior Court. He was only 33 when President Harrison made him Solicitor-General...
Bench. In 1921, a message pencilled on rough copy paper and signed "Gus," reached the Hon. William Howard Taft in Canada. It was from the late Gustave J. Karger, oldtime correspondent of the Cincinnati Times-Star. "Gus" reported that President Harding had just decided "to appoint Big Bill Chief Justice." Back to Washington he went, now far removed from the irrational bickerings of "practical men." Looking down from the High Bench, he beheld the "Best Minds" of the Harding era on the job, many of them from his native Ohio. When the Oil Scandals broke, there were no party ties...
...Alphonso Taft of Cincinnati married a Miss Fannie Phelps, who bore him Charles Phelps Taft and died. He then married Miss Louisa Maria Torrey, who bore him three sons, one every other year beginning in 1857-William Howard Taft, Henry Waters Taft (Manhattan lawyer) and Horace Button Taft (founder-headmaster of Taft School, Watertown, Conn.). Three of these Tafts had issue. Charles Phelps Taft's children were Jane, David, Anna, Charles. William Howard Taft's were Robert, Charles Phelps II, Helen. Henry Waters Taft's were Walbridge, William Howard II and Louise. These, in turn, have produced...
...having been graduated from the University of Cincinnati and having done some trifling landscapes for the office safes of nature-loving Cincinnati businessmen, young Outcault walked into the office of Joseph Pulitzer's New York World. He had some cartoons of life in a place called Hogan's Alley, of which the hero was a one-toothed, big-eared urchin. He thought it would be a good idea for the World to run his cartoons in color. The World thought so too. The urchin of Hogan's Alley appeared in a yellow nightgown. Thus was born...
Died. Abraham Isaacs, 70, Ohio dry goods merchant & philanthropist, father of six professors and associate professors (Harvard, University of Rochester, University of Michigan, Columbia, Pittsburgh University); in Cincinnati, Ohio. Died. Henry Charles ("Carl") Ramos, 72, veteran New Orleans saloonkeeper, inventor of the famed, much-imitated Ramos gin fizz;* in New Orleans...