Word: rufus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Astonishing Reading." When Rufus Daniel Isaacs first saw India as a cabin boy it was because of an unsuccessful youthful love affair. When he next saw India as Viceroy it was because of a successful love affair. The second woman, Alice Edith Cohen, who became his first wife, persuaded him to leave a failing career as a stockbroker and study law. Colleagues rate him below his contemporaries Lord Birkenhead and Sir John Simon as a lawyer. They credit his industry (he got up at 4 a. m.), his wit and polish, his amazing memory for figures for the fact that...
...infallibility as unquestioningly as did the associates of the late Ivar Kreuger and Samuel Insull. In 1903 London & Globe Co. crashed. Whitaker Wright was charged with issuing false balance sheets. So complicated was the financial maze he had built that no lawyer in England wanted the case. Rufus Isaacs agreed to prosecute it. For days he stood in Old Bailey, his eyes sharp and penetrating beneath a pushed back wig, suavely questioning, blandly dissecting the answers he received. Swindler Wright grew pale as he realized that at last someone could untangle his involved deceptions. A jury found him guilty...
...Rufus Isaacs became Solicitor General and a knight. A few months later he was Attorney General (Sir John Simon was his subordinate). In 1913 he became Lord Chief Justice, the next year a baron. Between those years he had been a lieutenant of David Lloyd George, helped to engineer the House of Lords reform, survived the scandal that threatened to end his career. As Attorney General he approved a contract whereby British Marconi Co. was permitted to construct a chain of wireless stations throughout the Empire. Before the contract was drawn he had bought 10,000 shares in American Marconi...
...hand dealt England by Fate . . . the longest suit is the Jew. . . . Do not forget . . . Marcus Samuel, who gave them a brand new oil empire; Weitzman, who taught them to make high explosives; Mond. who settled the labor war; Herbert Samuel, who nearly prevented the downfall of coal mining, and Rufus Isaacs . . . who saved the Indian Empire that Disraeli created for them. . . . It is not his brain power, his cunning, which England settled on and used. . . . It is the grand manner which is his genius . . . a politeness that introduces serenity and grace wherever it is put. . . . The Jewish businessman...
...Harvard Freshman football team will play the second game of its schedule when it travels to Exeter, N. H. to meet the Exeter Academy team. The game will be called at 2.30 o'clock. Coach Rufus Bond has selected 48 players to make the trip...