William Howard Taft
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William Howard Taft: The Travails of a Progressive Conservative
By Jonathan Luriethe famous E. C. Knight Case of 1895, in which ChiefJustice Fuller had noted that “in order to vitiate a contract or combination, it is not essential that its results should be a complete monopoly. It is sufficient if it really tends to ...
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William Howard Taft
By Michael BurganWilliam Jennings Bryan When Taft accepted the nomination , he praised Roosevelt . As the campaign went on , some people began to think Taft was running only to please Roosevelt . One reporter suggested that the letters in Taft's name ...
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William Howard Taft: Essential Writings and Addresses
By William Howard TaftLawler, 434 Lurton, Horace H., 422, 436–37 lynching, 288–93, 349 MacArthur, Douglas, 18–19 Madison,James, 144–46, 151, 267, 270, 259–64 Mann-Elkins Act, 23–24 Marbury v. Madison, 143–46, 348, 363 Marshall, John: as chief justice, 36, ...
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William Howard Taft: A Conservative's Conception of the Presidency
By Donald F. AndersonAlfred deGrazia (Washington: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1966), pp. 48–49. For more on Taft's attitude toward the commission, see Richardson, Messages, XXVII, 7930–31; “President Taft and the Cost of ...
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William Howard Taft: The American Presidents Series: The 27th President, 1909-1913
By Jeffrey RosenThe only man to serve as president and chief justice, who approached every decision in constitutional terms, defending the Founders’ vision against new populist threats to American democracy William Howard Taft never wanted to be ...
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William Howard Taft: The Life and Times
By Henry Fowles PringleIt is not improbable that William Howard Taft would disapprove of certain parts of this biography. Outwardly, he was the soul of decorum; too much so, perhaps, for his own...