“ THE GREATEST DRAMA “ BIOGRAPHY OF OHIO SENATOR ROBERT TAFT 1947 TAFT-HARTLEY ACT XD43494

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This black and white early-1950’s installment of the syndicated television series, “The Greatest Drama” provides a biography of American conservative politician, lawyer, and Ohio Senator Robert Alphonso Taft Sr. (1889-1953), architect of the anti-union Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 that banned closed shops as an amendment to the 1935 Labor Relations Act (TRT: 12:37). The New York City Victory Parade of 1946. Title overlay: “The Greatest Drama” (0:07). Robert Taft stares into the camera. Title overlay: “Mr. Republican” (0:28). The rear of the White House. 27th President William Howard Taft speaks (0:36). W.H. Taft at home and in closeup (0:46). Still photos circa the 1890’s: Robert Taft as a baby, a young boy in a sailor’s suit and cap, in a boy soldier’s uniform with a fixed bayonet, and with his family in a pleated suit, circa his father’s 1908 election to the U.S. pre