Word: ruthven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stricker's charges were denied by Alexander G. Ruthven, president of the university. However, General Motors complained to Governor Sigler, who asked for an investigation...
...university administration tried to smooth things over with the U.A.W., but without success. President Ruthven stated that the program would be the same as before, but Reuther declared the whole plan to be "completely unacceptable...
Both parties argued over the workers' service for three months more. Late in January, 1949, after some agreement had been reached. Ruthven announced the new list of teachers. The union protested that it had not been consulted: Ruthven said he reserved the right to pick instructors...
...courtly and reserved man, he seldom spoke to anyone. No one knew much about him except that he had graduated from the law school in 1896, that he had now retired from a Detroit law firm, had come back to the university and asked permission to live there. President Ruthven saw no reason not to grant the old grad's wish. A bachelor in his 70s, Crapo lived in one room at the Student Union, and spent most of the day in a leather chair in the lobby, buried behind his New York Times...
English Art Historian Ruthven (rhymes with driven) Todd has done much to rescue Artist Fuseli from oblivion in a book, Tracks in the Snow (Scribner; $3.75) which was on sale in the U.S. last week...