Word: reubens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stole dainties from the Red Room tea table and was ever to be seen at the President's side. One Thanksgiving Rebecca, raccoon, was sent to the White House to be eaten, but the First Lady could not bear to kill her, built a pen, found a mate (Reuben) who disliked Rebecca and eventually escaped. When President Coolidge summered at Black Hills he was presented with a white collie puppy. Diana of Wildwood, which he preferred to call Calamity Jane after Martha ("Calamity") Jane Canary Burke, famed Dakota saloonkeeper and roisterer, admirer of Wild Bill Hickok, by whose side...
These ships, designers hope, will be able to make regular transoceanic trips. Biggest U. S. seaplane is Major Reuben Hollis Fleet's Consolidated Commodore: span 100 ft., length 62 ft., 2 motors, 1,050 h. p. Biggest U. S. land plane is Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker's F-32, span 99 ft., length 70 ft., 4 motors, 2,100 h. p. These have just been tried out and sold for South American passenger service...
...article about Architect Kahn should have everybody's approval: only a great and good man gives away $75,000 of earned income yearly. But in your parenthetical allusion to other note worthy bearers of that name you inadvertently missed an opportunity to do justice to a great scientist. Reuben L. Kahn of the faculty of the University of Michigan gave last year to charity about $75 but nevertheless also received an invitation from the Russian government to come to Moscow, which he accepted as he also accepted invitations from scientific societies of London, Paris, Berlin, Edinburgh and Copenhagen. Prof...
...Died. Reuben H. Donnelley, 64, of Chicago, chairman of the board of the Reuben H. Donnelley Corp. (publishers of directories), vice president of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (TIME'S printers); in Chicago. In 1905 Mr. Donnelley was a partner in a stock brokerage firm which went bankrupt. The firm paid 27? on the dollar, was free of debt, legally. But Partner Donnelley felt obligations, morally. Twenty-two years later, he repaid his creditors with interest, a sum of more than...
...find that his right hand man-R. E.†Olds-is gone. As Under Secretary of State (1927-28), Mr. Olds was well-nigh indispensable to Mr. Kellogg. Today there is really no "favorite" among the four men on whom, the secretary chiefly leans:1) Under Secretary J. Reuben Clark Jr., and Assistant Secretaries 2) William R. Castle Jr. (Europe); 3) Nelson T. Johnson (Far East); 4) Francis White (Latin America). Among veteran Washington correspondents the consensus is: 1) The President and the Secretary of State are "close friends," but not quite "intimate friends"; 2) Relations are close and cordial...