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...quotations from Rufus Choate the Bar Association can summon up will have little enough effect upon the man holding the whip in the State House. To say that such a rank political trick endangers public confidence in the courts is too obvious a truth to emphasize. But, after all, what influence can such a trivial consideration have upon the Napoleonic mind of Mr. Curley? It is almost comic to hope that the integrity of the judiciary will mean anything to the man who has dragged the governorship of Massachusetts down to a level where almost no one has confidence...
Meanwhile, Author Francis Rufus Bellamy, a onetime executive editor of The New Yorker, had conceived a variation of the Golden Book formula, produced it last May in Fiction Parade-a slight magazine reprinting current fiction. Last week it had only 30,000 subscribers, but it had one less rival. Proudly Editor Bellamy announced that, beginning October, his magazine will reprint old classics along with new, will carry no advertising, will be particularly attentive to poetry and art, will be named Fiction Parade & Golden Book...
Three days later A. T. & T. celebrated its 50th anniversary by taking an hour on the radio, broadcasting a long-distance chat among Washington's Gary Travers Grayson, Boston's Karl Taylor Compton, Chicago's Rufus Cutler Dawes, Hollywood's Grace Moore, St. Louis' Jerome Herman ["Dizzy"] Dean...
...Samuel Rufus Rosoff was born in Minsk, Russia, 53 years ago. Aged u, he worked his way to the U. S. as a potato-peeler on an immigrant ship. A tough, dirty little boy who had never been inside a school, he sold newspapers, slept on warm sidewalk gratings, learned to read at the Public Library. One job led to another until Samuel Rosoff was building New York City subways, operating bus lines, brewing King's beer, buying race horses and making money hand over fist. Today he often carries $50,000 cash in his pockets, tells competitors: "Money...
...Last week Rufus Dawes's son Charles Cutler Dawes, Colonel in the Illinois National Guard, filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy listing debts of $532,874. His only tangible assets: $300 worth of military equipment and uniforms. With his family of three Son Charles, whose brokerage business was suspended in 1931, lives with Papa Dawes on Lake Shore Drive...