Word: roderick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roderick Firth, a Guggenheim Fellow, has been appointed associate professor of Philosophy, effective July 1, 1953, Provost Paul H. Buck announced yesterday...
...Teacher Roderick Cox of Washington's Sidwell Friends School, who has often been "distressed" by the inept questioning he has heard on adult forum shows, says flatly that "the thinking student asks far better questions than the average adult." In fact, he has found that teen-age information sometimes outpaces his own. Cox walked into class one morning last week to discover that his students had drawn up complete lists of possible Cabinet members for both Stevenson and Eisenhower. What disturbed him most, says Cox, was that "some of the names they had listed, I didn't even...
...RODERICK I. A. SMITH R.C.A.F. Toronto, Ontario
...Empire. Despite its reputation, Reuters soon slid into poor financial shape, as cable companies had captured most of its profitable private cable business. Long a mouthpiece of the British Empire, it was glad during World War I to take subsidies from the British government to spread propaganda, and Sir Roderick Jones, Reuters' chief and its biggest stockholder, was happy to double for a time as British Director of Propaganda. Reuters' reputation as the "official" government news service soon became an added handicap, and by 1926, Sir Roderick was forced to sell a controlling interest in the agency...
Reuters' financial difficulties continued until 1941, when the London press bought in, turned the agency into a cooperative (like the A.P.), which now includes papers in India, Australia and New Zealand. Sir Roderick Jones was replaced by Christopher Chancellor, who had been chief correspondent and general manager in the Far East. He cleaned out the deadwood, pepped up Reuters' flat and often long-winded copy, determinedly turned Reuters away from its old reputation as a voice of the Empire, was knighted for the job. In ten years, Sir Christopher, now 47 and his editor, Walton Cole, 38, have...