Word: rufus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whitaker Wright committed suicide, not in his presence, but in that of (to use your own attractive phraseology) suave, pale-faced Lawson Walton, K.C., by whom Wright was defended. While the suicide was happening. Rufus Isaacs, as he then was, was engaged in a consultation in his chambers. The news was brought to him, and gave him a terrible shock, so he told...
...Rufus Boyd Jr.. executive vice president. Last year A. P. I. members decided they wanted a president who would be more than a shirt front. They elected Amos Leonidas Beaty and decided to depart from tradition, pay him a salary (reported at $50,000). Many members were against the salary. Others felt that 62-year-old Mr. Beaty, whose friends call him "Judge," was not giving the A. P. I. its money's worth. When the A. P. I. held its convention in Houston last week Mr. Boyd let it be known that he would resign should...
VALCOUR MEETS MURDER?Rufus King ?Crime Club ($2). Eight hard-boiled characters, some virtuous, remain unreal through storm, fire, double death and transportation of stolen gems about the Canadian border; and Valcour remains Lieutenant Valcour...
...Pfahler Eisenhart. Three became headmasters: Emerson Boyd Morrow of Gilman, Louis Wardlaw Miles whom he succeeded, and Charles Hodge Jones of Silver Bay School (New York). Department heads at Princeton are Roger Bruce Cash Johnson (philosophy), Edward Samuel Corwin (politics), Duane Reed Stuart (classics), Robert Kilburn Root (English), Charles Rufus Morey (art & archaeology), Henry Norris Russell (astronomy), Charles Grosvenor Osgood Jr. (formerly English). Department heads elsewhere: Ernest Ludlow Bogart (economics, University of Illinois), George Dwight Kellogg (classics, Union University), Gilbert Ames Bliss (mathematics, University of Chicago), John Wesley Young (mathematics, University of Kansas). John Edward Wallace Wallin (psychology, University...
...Isaacs wit which the U. S. public had heard about but did not see last week was visible on an occasion when Lloyd-George publicly addressed him in Welsh. Rufus Isaacs replied in Hebrew, "and nobody knew the difference...