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...keep his distance above Lake Baikal. For the glory of the World's Fair he flies on, and his daring will reinforce the glib Mr. Holmes and the accommodating Areturus to publicize Chicago's latest exposition. Mr. Charles Dawes thought he would not spend any money on publicity. Mr. Rufus Dawes thought he would spend ten thousand dollars. The compromise is Mr. Mattern...
Islanders who continued to hope they would be appointed Governor of Hawaii despite a change in the law included Rufus Hagood, Honolulu physician; William B. Pittman, Honolulu lawyer, brother of Nevada's Key Pittman who is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Delbert E. Metger, chairman of last year's territorial Democratic convention, and John H. Wilson, Scotch-Irish-Tahitian-Hawaiian who, at the age of 12, used to polish guns in the royal Hawaiian armory...
...visible last week was six years' work that made the show possible. In 1927 Fair President Rufus Cutler Dawes appointed Chauncey McCormick chairman of the committee on art exhibits. The Fair's general manager, Maj. Lenox Riley Lohr, wanted to know what Chicagoans wanted to see. A questionnaire showed they wanted to see September Morn and Rosa Bonheur's The Horse Fair. Mr. McCormick, remembering the art shambles at Chicago's 1893 Fair where every exhibitor was given space to hang what he liked, countered with the names of Rembrandt, Gauguin, da Vinci...
...sharply divided cliques-one military, the other civilian. For general manager, Brother Charles picked Lenox R. Lohr, a onetime Major of Engineers who served with him in France. After Major Lohr came many another Army officer, until submerged civilian workers chafed under ' Army brusqueness and red tape. Brother Rufus has kept them all in harness and pulling forward so well that the Century of Progress may be one of those rare fairs that is really ready to open on the day advertised...
...when Samuel Insull bogged down, took over the finance chairmanship. But soon after he got back from Ambassadoring in London he had Reconstruction Finance Corp. to run, and after that a run on his bank to stop, and after that a new bank to build. So Brother Rufus has really done most of the work from all angles. He has not permitted money to be spent until it was in hand, has never let the Fair's bank balance fall below $1,000,000. As they look over the multicolored Fair buildings and up at the Sky Ride...