Word: phelpses
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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* Statistics appearing in The Builders of America by Ellsworth Huntington, Yale social scientist, and Leon F. Whitney, eugenist, show that for every 20 clergymen one clergyman's son is listed in Who's Who, whereas the proportion for other professions is 46 to 1; for skilled labor 1...
Died. Charles Phelps Taft, 86, publisher of the Cincinnati Times-Star, half-brother of Chief Justice William Howard Taft; at Cincinnati; of pneumonia (see P-52).
For nearly 50 years, Charles Phelps Taft of Cincinnati left his white Georgian house in prim Pike Street each morning and made his way to his newspaper office, the Times-Star. Neat, small, white-bearded, he was secure in the knowledge that his was one of the Great U. S...