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...Others: World's Champion Alexandre Alexandrovitch Alekhine of France, The Netherlands' Max Euwe, Russia's Mikhail Botwinnik, Estonia's Paul Keres, Czecho-Slovakia's Salo Flohr, Manhattan's Reuben Fine...
...study of Cartoonist Reuben Lucius ("Rube") Goldberg ended in 1895 when his teacher, a San Francisco sign painter, fell off a scaffold. But when Rube Goldberg held his first one-man show in Manhattan last week, hundreds rushed to pay him homage...
...several days headlines in the United Press column of the CRIMSON Proclaimed in ominous tones that negotiations between the American and the Japanese were breaking up. But nobody in Cambridge paid much attention. Just another crisis, like the now-forgotten Reuben James, Greer and Kearney affairs, everybody said, if, indeed, they noticed the stories...
...year-old President Grant has long been ill, most Mormons decided that this revelation came from the man who read it to the conference-First Counselor J. Reuben Clark Jr., onetime Hoover Ambassador to Mexico and a last-ditch isolationist before Pearl Harbor. Next day this impression was strengthened when disagreement in the First Presidency itself became evident. Said Second Counselor David 0. McKay in a national broadcast: "The conflict must continue. ... We cannot have peace until the mad gangsters ... are defeated and branded as murderers, their false aims repudiated, and this war against wickedness ended...
...most widely read columnist ("William Hickey" of the London Daily Express), was a breezy leftist, so unconventional that in 1939 he called Adolf Hitler at his Berlin telephone number (only to be told that he could not speak to the Führer). But when the Government candidate, Conservative Reuben Hunt, attributed Britain's Libyan reverses to "our too-heavy shipments of arms to Russia," Independent Driberg accused him of a "wretched alibi for the incompetence of brass hats," and Maldon agreed with Driberg...