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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U of Michigan Ends Worker Education School | 5/27/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U of Michigan Ends Worker Education School | 5/27/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Giveaway | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Forgotten Pyramid | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...blue and white-crossed blue pins. Each represented a U.S. television, FM, or educational radio station. A short, wiry young man looked at the map, remarked: "A lot has happened in the past five years, and a lot more will happen in the next five." The speaker was Charles Ruthven Denny Jr., 34, whom President Truman named last week as chairman of the seven-man Federal Communications Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Master Radioman | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

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