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Russians noted that Economist Hoover's colleagues included: Rufus J. Wysor, ex-president of Republic Steel; Elis S. Hoglund, prewar head of G.M.'s Opel works in Germany, and their boss, A.M.G.'s Brigadier General William H. Draper Jr., former partner of Dillon, Read & Co. Sensitive Soviet noses smelled a capitalist plot to rebuild Germany as a bastion against Communist Russia...
First to put itself on record was a group prodded by members of the frankly pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation. Sixty religious and educational leaders (including Professor Walter Russell Bowie of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Professor Henry J. Cadbury of the Harvard Divinity School and Professor Rufus M. Jones of Quaker Haverford College) signed a statement describing U.S. raids on Japan as "large-scale massacre ... of defenseless women and children . . . [which] cannot be so 'effective' in military terms as to justify itself in terms of humanity and the future peace of the world. . . . The Japanese...
...University of Southern California last year, T.N.E. members presumed to warn fraternity-shunning veterans of World War II not to seek campus office or promote their own social society, "Trovets." Promptly U.S.C.'s able President Rufus B. von KleinSmid began an enthusiastic campaign of extermination. Last week the battle reached a climax...
...General Motors' scholarly Economist Rufus Stickney Tucker: $125,000,000,000; 53.5 million jobs...
Birth of a Crusader. A few months later in Manhattan an itinerant Yankee cobbler, house painter, fiddler, schoolmaster and inventor named Rufus Porter boldly started a weekly called Scientific American. Last week Scientific American, publishing its 100th anniversary issue, paused to celebrate an eventful career...