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...Your statement concerning the amounts of water necessary to operate Pick-Sloan is confirmed by Rufus Terrel in his book "Missouri Valley" (New Haven, 1947). His exhaustive critique of the P-S plan includes the fact that more water will be needed to operate it than can be obtained from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pick-Sloan and the MVA | 3/15/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Who's a Rascal? | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Who's a Rascal? | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

Caught up, Pegler retracted his error with a sleight-of-hand pass designed to be quicker than readers' eyes. ("Only recently [I] caught myself in the mistaken belief that Rufus Bullock . . . was the great-grandfather of the Empress Eleanor.") In doing so, he pulled another mudball out of his hat. Demanded Pegler, with the air of a man getting to the heart of the matter: "But who, then, was Rufus the rogue? What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Who's a Rascal? | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

...only other Eli regulars in the Class of 1951 are quarterback Stu Tisdale, end Warren Gant, and tackles Walt Clemens, Rufus Phillips, and Joe Finnegan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Football Team Chooses Quackenbush 1950 Captain | 11/22/1949 | See Source »

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