Robert Taft had steam up. Last week, with Congress just about ready to quit, he pulled the whistle. This week the Taft campaign train would begin to roll, and Ohio's plugging Senator would be off on what he hoped was the right track to the Republican presidential nomination.
If anyone did not know the makeup of the train, it was not the fault of Engineer Taft. He had put it together in the yards of the 80th Congress, where virtually every piece of major legislation had been given his boost or his boot. Frankly, loudly, obstinately and often, he had...
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