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...Pfahler Eisenhart. Three became headmasters: Emerson Boyd Morrow of Gilman, Louis Wardlaw Miles whom he succeeded, and Charles Hodge Jones of Silver Bay School (New York). Department heads at Princeton are Roger Bruce Cash Johnson (philosophy), Edward Samuel Corwin (politics), Duane Reed Stuart (classics), Robert Kilburn Root (English), Charles Rufus Morey (art & archaeology), Henry Norris Russell (astronomy), Charles Grosvenor Osgood Jr. (formerly English). Department heads elsewhere: Ernest Ludlow Bogart (economics, University of Illinois), George Dwight Kellogg (classics, Union University), Gilbert Ames Bliss (mathematics, University of Chicago), John Wesley Young (mathematics, University of Kansas). John Edward Wallace Wallin (psychology, University...
...infallibility as unquestioningly as did the associates of the late Ivar Kreuger and Samuel Insull. In 1903 London & Globe Co. crashed. Whitaker Wright was charged with issuing false balance sheets. So complicated was the financial maze he had built that no lawyer in England wanted the case. Rufus Isaacs agreed to prosecute it. For days he stood in Old Bailey, his eyes sharp and penetrating beneath a pushed back wig, suavely questioning, blandly dissecting the answers he received. Swindler Wright grew pale as he realized that at last someone could untangle his involved deceptions. A jury found him guilty...
...Rufus Isaacs became Solicitor General and a knight. A few months later he was Attorney General (Sir John Simon was his subordinate). In 1913 he became Lord Chief Justice, the next year a baron. Between those years he had been a lieutenant of David Lloyd George, helped to engineer the House of Lords reform, survived the scandal that threatened to end his career. As Attorney General he approved a contract whereby British Marconi Co. was permitted to construct a chain of wireless stations throughout the Empire. Before the contract was drawn he had bought 10,000 shares in American Marconi...
...hand dealt England by Fate . . . the longest suit is the Jew. . . . Do not forget . . . Marcus Samuel, who gave them a brand new oil empire; Weitzman, who taught them to make high explosives; Mond. who settled the labor war; Herbert Samuel, who nearly prevented the downfall of coal mining, and Rufus Isaacs . . . who saved the Indian Empire that Disraeli created for them. . . . It is not his brain power, his cunning, which England settled on and used. . . . It is the grand manner which is his genius . . . a politeness that introduces serenity and grace wherever it is put. . . . The Jewish businessman...
...Isaacs wit which the U. S. public had heard about but did not see last week was visible on an occasion when Lloyd-George publicly addressed him in Welsh. Rufus Isaacs replied in Hebrew, "and nobody knew the difference...