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...begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization." "There is nothing so powerful as truth -and often nothing so strange." The Author. Claude Moore Fuess. 45, is instructor in English at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. He has also written: The Life of Caleb cushing, Rufus Choate: The Wizard...
...Marquess of Reading, Rufus Daniel Isaacs (former Viceroy of India, representing the British Liberal Party...
Baron Passfield himself seemed to weaken under a barrage of criticism from Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin, Liberal Leader David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Professor Albert Einstein and the Marquess of Reading, Rufus Daniel Isaacs. At a meeting of Labor M.P.'s the author of the Passfield Declaration admitted that "its wording may have been unfortunate and perhaps open to an anti- Jewish interpretation which was not intended...
...other contestants, with 97 birds out of 100, for the country's most important trapshooting championship - the Grand American Handicap. The men, taut-faced, middleaged, were J. L. Scott and Dan Casey of Toledo and Lawrence Crampton of Dayton. The boy, least nervous of the four, was Alfred Rufus King Jr. of Wichita Falls, son of famed Marksman Rufus A. King, 1921 winner of the Governor's cup. Short and slender for his 14 years, he looked out of place beside his competitors as they went out to shoot 25 birds to decide the tie. A handicap...
...Chicago from London, stopped off at the Lawrenceville School, in New Jersey; wore cap & gown at commencement exercises (he is a trustee of the school) ; saw his adopted son, Dana McCutcheon Dawes, 18, graduated; lunched at "Dawes House,"* erected by him in memory of his son, Rufus, who was drowned...