Word: ruhl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other editors noted the same quality. "Before I graduated," Robert W. Ruhl '03 said, "I talked with the other editors who had executive positions and they said Franklin had a lot on the ball and the nerve of a brass baboon... The man could, if he wished, charm the birdies right out of the trees...
...chief Struthof monsters, Professor August Hirt, SS director of the camp, and Dr. Helmuth Ruhl, are still at large. Tried in absentia, they were sentenced to death...
...were heard to remark that such an outrage could never have happened in Pakistan. By week's end, the matter had developed into an international incident; Pakistan was demanding an official apology. But New Rochelle's cops were standing pat. "I tried to explain," said Lieut. Lawrence Ruhl patiently, "that when gypsies turn up in the city, our men are on the alert for mischief...
Comments on FDR from his contemporaries on the paper are quite informative. Robert W. Ruhl '03, now a country editor in Oregon, reports, "I saw little of him and that little I did not like much. Before I graduated, I talked with the other editors who had executive positions and they said Franklin had a lot on the ball and the nerve of a brass baboon. And I must admit, although I never lost my original skepticism entirely, I was pleased (on a meeting later in life) by the President's cordiality and informality. The man could, if he wished...