Word: rufus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discreetly about her fine old aristocratic Southern background. 'My grandmother was a Bulloch from Georgia,' she wrote . . . Nowhere [did she name] that fine old Southern aristocrat who was the father of the Bulloch belle who married the first T.R. . . . The reason . . . might be that his name was Rufus Bulloch, sometimes spelled Bullock, one of the foulest rascals of a day when rascality was truly in flower; a thief, embezzler, grafter, a veritable Quisling, and ... a scalawag...
...Atlantans pointing out how low-down it really was. (King Features had also spotted the error, sent a belated "kill" order.) Two days later, the Constitution sternly corrected Pegler. In his "zeal to defame the Roosevelts," said the newspaper, Pegler had confused the "distinguished Bulloch family of Georgia"-with Rufus Brown Bullock, no Southerner but a damyankee from New York who was the "detested" governor of Georgia in Reconstruction days (1868-71). Mrs. Roosevelt was a Bulloch, not a Bullock...