Word: rufus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three days later A. T. & T. celebrated its 50th anniversary by taking an hour on the radio, broadcasting a long-distance chat among Washington's Gary Travers Grayson, Boston's Karl Taylor Compton, Chicago's Rufus Cutler Dawes, Hollywood's Grace Moore, St. Louis' Jerome Herman ["Dizzy"] Dean...
...Samuel Rufus Rosoff was born in Minsk, Russia, 53 years ago. Aged u, he worked his way to the U. S. as a potato-peeler on an immigrant ship. A tough, dirty little boy who had never been inside a school, he sold newspapers, slept on warm sidewalk gratings, learned to read at the Public Library. One job led to another until Samuel Rosoff was building New York City subways, operating bus lines, brewing King's beer, buying race horses and making money hand over fist. Today he often carries $50,000 cash in his pockets, tells competitors: "Money...
...businesses the most uncertain is show business. And of show businesses the most uncertain are fairs. And of fair businesses the most uncertain are world fairs which require huge investments, huge ballyhoo. Last week when A Century of Progress cast up its accounts, it was clear that Impresario Rufus Dawes* had done what has never been done before: he made a world's fair pay. From January 1928 to December 1934 A Century of Progress had taken in $29,321,876 from paid admissions, space rentals, concessions, contributions, etc. Most debts and expenses, totaling $28,548,225, had been...
...Last week Rufus Dawes's son Charles Cutler Dawes, Colonel in the Illinois National Guard, filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy listing debts of $532,874. His only tangible assets: $300 worth of military equipment and uniforms. With his family of three Son Charles, whose brokerage business was suspended in 1931, lives with Papa Dawes on Lake Shore Drive...
...revolution was launched by one Rufus Lenois Patterson, seventh son of an impoverished North Carolina lawyer-planter. About 1919, after 20 years of grief, he perfected a cigar machine which cut, rolled and wrapped the leaves, made the cheap cigar profitable to produce. In 1921 about 30% of the 6,726,000,000 cigars consumed sold at 5? or less. In 1933, the proportion had jumped to 85%. This stupendous gain was made in spite of the fact that cigarets and Depression had cut total cigar consumption to new lows. Nickel cigars had simply profited at the expense of higher...