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Identifier: recollectionsoff00taft (find matches)
Title: Recollections of full years
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Taft, Helen Herron, 1861-1943
Subjects: White House (Washington, D.C.) Philippines -- Description and travel Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e Unitarian Church,decided to give their version of the same story, and it was ahuge success. Mr. Taft played the title role and his brotherHorace, who is six feet four in his stocking feet, shared withthe Beauty the honours of the evening as a most enchantingPuck. Then wre had parties in the country, too. Many of ourfriends had country places that spread along the MadisonRoad and the Grandin Road on East Walnut Hills, andtwo of my closest friends lived out there in a great house,looking down over the majestic but tawny Ohio River, abovethe point where the sweeping curve begins that carries it bythe amphitheatre in which the business part of the city isbuilt. It was a long distance to East Walnut Hills and inmy girlhood we had to go the greater part of the way in aclumsy old omnibus that clumped along over the unpavedroads at the rate of about three miles an hour. But suchlittle inconveniences didnt trouble us, and many were thevaudeville and charade parties that we had, there being 8
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RECOLLECTIONS OF FULL YEARS enough talent among us to get up an amusing perform-ance at a moments notice. But in spite of all this gaiety, Mr. Taft was making verysatisfactory progress in his career. As a law reporter heshowed his growing interest in the public welfare by meet-ing certain elements in Cincinnati politics with vigorous de-nunciation. There was a man named Tom Campbell, aclever criminal lawyer, who had something more than a sus-picion against him of bribery and corruption of both wit-nesses and juries, and he had succeeded in organising apolitical machine that was running the town according tohis directions. Campbell was counsel for the defence in what was knownas the Hoffman case and was strongly suspected of tamper-ing with the jury, and Mr. Taft in reporting the case, tookspecial pains to bring out all the fine points in the lawyerscharacter and methods, telling the truth as he saw it. This brought him into association with Mr. Miller Out-calt, the Assistant Prosecuti

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