Word: rufus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gravest concern to Chief Impresario Rufus Dawes last week was the final profit and loss standing of his enterprise. Estimated total amount spent on the show was $32,529,000, but a considerable part of this was spent by exhibitors and concessionaires. When the Fair opened, its total liabilities were $13,202,000 of which $9,750,000 represented a bond issue subscribed by Chicagoans. Three days before closing, revenue from admissions was $8,913,000, from concessions $3,055,000. Expenses were $4,913,000. With adjustments for lesser items net operating profit was $7,454,000. Remaining liabilities...
...announcement of the final week of the Fair was that it would open again in 1934. As money came in during the summer Impresario Rufus Dawes paid off $4,000,000 of bonds. Last week he paid another million, felt he had done pretty well to pay stockholders 52½? on the dollar (some fairs have paid only 10? on the dollar). He proposed to keep some cash in the treasury and start afresh with a "new" Fair. New concessions and new exhibits were promised the public. Other changes planned: to move the Army camp which divided the Fair...
...English gardener who landscaped Haverford's trim campus So years ago introduced cricket, still the favorite spring sport. Haverford calls freshmen "Rhinies" (as does Lawrenceville School). An annual custom is dressing in odd costumes for the last Ethics lecture of the year by Professor Rufus Matthew Jones, Haverford's most respected and oldest active teacher, 'Quaker theologian and member of the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry. The costume custom was nearly abandoned when a student appeared on a Kiddie Kar in long woolen underwear as Lady Godiva. Among Haverford's younger teachers are Leslie Hotson...
...Chicago Fair," he remonstrated. Next day as he drove up to the 14th Street entrance of the Fair a squad of cavalry and a battalion of troops snapped to attention. Citizen Hoover smiled and waved as a 21-gun salute went off and the Brothers Dawes, Charles Gates and Rufus, came up to greet him. They visited the California and Iowa exhibits, the Hall of Science. At the Alaskan cabin he chatted with Musher "Slim" Williams, who drove a dogteam from Alaska to Chicago. "Mr. Hoover likes dogs," said Mrs. Hoover. "It's hard to get him away when...
April 1 (Easter) Prof. Rufus M. Jones, Haverford College...