Word: rufus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visible last week was six years' work that made the show possible. In 1927 Fair President Rufus Cutler Dawes appointed Chauncey McCormick chairman of the committee on art exhibits. The Fair's general manager, Maj. Lenox Riley Lohr, wanted to know what Chicagoans wanted to see. A questionnaire showed they wanted to see September Morn and Rosa Bonheur's The Horse Fair. Mr. McCormick, remembering the art shambles at Chicago's 1893 Fair where every exhibitor was given space to hang what he liked, countered with the names of Rembrandt, Gauguin, da Vinci...
...lets him explode, then goes ahead to do what should be done. In the early days of the Fair he wanted to allot $10,000 a year for publicity. Cried Charley: "Damn it. just do something. Then the newspapers will publish it. The hell with spending that much money!" Rufus said nothing, allotted the $10,000 when the time came...
...Rufus Dawes smokes his pipe right side up. An able public speaker, he dislikes society and ceremony but has had to get used to them in his present job. Tall, long of face and nose, at 65 he is slightly stooped and his grey hair is thinning. His brown eyes twinkle benignly through horn-rimmed pince-nez swung from a black silk ribbon. He picks his suits carefully and well, wears them neatly pressed and with ties more harmonious than Brother Charley...
...sharply divided cliques-one military, the other civilian. For general manager, Brother Charles picked Lenox R. Lohr, a onetime Major of Engineers who served with him in France. After Major Lohr came many another Army officer, until submerged civilian workers chafed under ' Army brusqueness and red tape. Brother Rufus has kept them all in harness and pulling forward so well that the Century of Progress may be one of those rare fairs that is really ready to open on the day advertised...
...when Samuel Insull bogged down, took over the finance chairmanship. But soon after he got back from Ambassadoring in London he had Reconstruction Finance Corp. to run, and after that a run on his bank to stop, and after that a new bank to build. So Brother Rufus has really done most of the work from all angles. He has not permitted money to be spent until it was in hand, has never let the Fair's bank balance fall below $1,000,000. As they look over the multicolored Fair buildings and up at the Sky Ride...