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...businesses the most uncertain is show business. And of show businesses the most uncertain are fairs. And of fair businesses the most uncertain are world fairs which require huge investments, huge ballyhoo. Last week when A Century of Progress cast up its accounts, it was clear that Impresario Rufus Dawes* had done what has never been done before: he made a world's fair pay. From January 1928 to December 1934 A Century of Progress had taken in $29,321,876 from paid admissions, space rentals, concessions, contributions, etc. Most debts and expenses, totaling $28,548,225, had been...
...revolution was launched by one Rufus Lenois Patterson, seventh son of an impoverished North Carolina lawyer-planter. About 1919, after 20 years of grief, he perfected a cigar machine which cut, rolled and wrapped the leaves, made the cheap cigar profitable to produce. In 1921 about 30% of the 6,726,000,000 cigars consumed sold at 5? or less. In 1933, the proportion had jumped to 85%. This stupendous gain was made in spite of the fact that cigarets and Depression had cut total cigar consumption to new lows. Nickel cigars had simply profited at the expense of higher...
...Such a tax would tend to stifle one of the most spiritual qualities that by its innate strength derived from its roots in the hearts of its people has survived against mean and mercenary commercialism throughout the ages. . . . RUFUS B. VON KLEINSMID...
...Pont $5,000 Lammot du Pont 5,000 Edward F. Hutton (General Foods) 5,000 Sewell Lee Avery (Montgomery Ward) 5,000 George Monroe Moffett (Corn Products) 5,000 Rufus Lenoir Patterson 2nd (American Machine & Foundry) 5,000 Samuel Bayard Colgate (Colgate-Palmolive-Peet) 5,000 Robert Sterling Clark (broker) . . 4,900 Archibald M. L. du Pont 2,500 Hal Roach (cinema comedies) . . 2,500 William Lockhart Clayton (cotton broker) 1,000 Renée W. Baruch (daughter) . . . 100 Mrs. Clarence Mackay...
...long such tirades might have continued had not Rufus Daniel Isaacs been in the House is conjectural. This Jew of Jews, this Disraelian paragon of Empire, the great Marquess of Reading, was Lord Chief Justice of England (1913-21), be fore he became High Commissioner and Special Envoy to borrow wartime millions in the U. S. through J. P. Morgan ;; Co. Gently interposing last week, Rufus Daniel Isaacs proposed to rephrase the offending clause, "so that it should not operate to the prejudice of anybody now a Lord Justice...