Word: rufus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Such a tax would tend to stifle one of the most spiritual qualities that by its innate strength derived from its roots in the hearts of its people has survived against mean and mercenary commercialism throughout the ages. . . . RUFUS B. VON KLEINSMID...
...Pont $5,000 Lammot du Pont 5,000 Edward F. Hutton (General Foods) 5,000 Sewell Lee Avery (Montgomery Ward) 5,000 George Monroe Moffett (Corn Products) 5,000 Rufus Lenoir Patterson 2nd (American Machine & Foundry) 5,000 Samuel Bayard Colgate (Colgate-Palmolive-Peet) 5,000 Robert Sterling Clark (broker) . . 4,900 Archibald M. L. du Pont 2,500 Hal Roach (cinema comedies) . . 2,500 William Lockhart Clayton (cotton broker) 1,000 Renée W. Baruch (daughter) . . . 100 Mrs. Clarence Mackay...
...long such tirades might have continued had not Rufus Daniel Isaacs been in the House is conjectural. This Jew of Jews, this Disraelian paragon of Empire, the great Marquess of Reading, was Lord Chief Justice of England (1913-21), be fore he became High Commissioner and Special Envoy to borrow wartime millions in the U. S. through J. P. Morgan ;; Co. Gently interposing last week, Rufus Daniel Isaacs proposed to rephrase the offending clause, "so that it should not operate to the prejudice of anybody now a Lord Justice...
...grandmother was whisked off to the Administration Building where, as the 16,000,000th visitor of 1934, she was presented with a five-acre farm and enough clothes, clocks, books and food to fill a truck. THE APOTHEOSIS OF MAN-MADE LIGHT began at 10 p. m. At midnight Rufus Cutler Dawes pulled a switch, blacking out every electric bulb in the grounds. Immediately the dark sky flared gorgeously with 500,000 bursting pyrotechnic bombs. Taps were sounded. Thus one day last week A Century of Progress came to the end of its second and last year as the nation...
...Chef Rufus Flint, who is sane, took a taste of the hard sauce, and dumped it. He made a new batch and served it to the hospital employes. Thirteen took sick with violent stomach aches...