Word: rutherford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Made in the U.S.A." Its founder was a thin, smallish Pittsburgh Congregationalist named Charles Taze Russell, who began preaching the second coming of Christ in the 18703, and organized his followers into the Zion's Watch Tower Society. When Russell died, a pontifical, organ-voiced lawyer, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, took over, built the organization into more or less its present form (estimated membership: 300,000), and called it Jehovah's Witnesses...
...Paris, Delhi, London, Frankfurt and Ottawa, Chicago Tribune foreign correspondents last week were sporting dazzling red, white & blue hand-painted neckties. They displayed a picture of the Tribune Tower, complete to the Stars & Stripes flying from the top. The ties were gifts from Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick, who wore one himself on his recent round-the-world junket (TIME, March 20); and thereby got the idea that his correspondents should also be suitably identified...
...trade voted the most distinguished U.S. fiction, non-fiction and poetry of 1949: Novelist Nelson Algren, 40, of Chicago, for The Man with the Golden Arm; Biographer Dr. Ralph L Rusk, 61, of Manhattan, for The Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson; Dr. William Carlos Williams, 66, pediatrician-poet of Rutherford, N.J., for two books of verse, Paterson, Book III and Selected Poems...
Even for such a veteran good-will ambassador as 69-year-old Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, his "last big trip" around the world was hitting new highs of diplomacy and tact. After causing a sensation in Spain by unwittingly displaying the Spanish Republican flag on his converted B-17 (TIME, March 6), the Chicago Tribune's publisher had invaded
...than a chance that some people who try Paterson for the first time will like it. Despite a humorlessness and awkwardness that make Williams the Dreiser of U.S. poets, the Williams eye sees with clinical honesty. And among poets too often barricaded behind private mutterings or elaborate mythical references, Rutherford's Dr. Williams keeps poking around outdoors. His notion...