Word: roudybush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roudybush Pleased...
...FRANKLIN ROUDYBUSH Director...
...Roudybush Foreign Service School...
...famed Civil Service (in which the candidate may be required to discuss anything from the causes of British hostility to Russia, 1815-1878, to the proposition, "The ballad is not literature"), but they are stiff enough to baffle most bright young Phi Beta Kappas. Cautious candidates commune with Mr. Roudybush for four months before attempting them. Confident candidates take the examinations first, often commune with Mr. Roudybush afterward for a second try. Each year 75 to 100 aspiring diplomats pay $225 apiece for the privilege. His school, now housed in a three-story Georgetown mansion, was founded in an apartment...
...Franklin Roudybush, 29, began teaching at "Crawford's" in 1927, took over the school when Founder Crawford died two years ago. Last year he decided to branch out with the New Deal. On the spot he studied Britain's Civil Service, and a London school which tutors for its examinations. Last week he announced that on Oct. 15 he would open a Washington School of Government Administration, chiefly for would-be public servants...