Word: ruff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Convivial weekend. Mr. Rosen-thai was in Mexico City on a business trip with his son-in-law, Joseph Ruff, Manhattan exporter. One Jack J. Zahler, rich candy manufacturer, vice president x)f the American Chamber of Commerce in Mexico City, invited them to accompany him to the convivial week-end resort of Cuernavaca, a three-hour motor ride from Mexico City. With them, in Mr. Zahler's motor, rode Mrs. Zahler, young, petite, personable, wearing what she afterwards declared to be $8,000 worth of jewels...
...week-end passed swiftly amid those diversions which have made Cuernavaca attractive to many Americans-among them U. S. Ambassador Sheffield. As their car left on the return journey to Mexico City, the Zahlers, Mr. Ruff and Mr. Rosenthal were described as "laughing and chatting loudly...
...bandit leader, a slim dark-skinned Mexican Indian, approached with drawn revolver, shrilled: "Climb down! Get out into the road!" Soon deft bandit fingers caressed the fat wallets of Mr. Ruff and Mr. Zahler, found a check book and some small change on Mr. Rosenthal. Louts, the bandits searched intensively without finding Mrs. Zahler's jewels...
MARJORIE A. RUFF Hammond...
...Subscriber Ruff, $3. See MEDICINE for item based on this clipping...