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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MOSCOW--Mrs. Ruth Marie Rubens of the Rubens-Robinson passport fraud and espionage case has renounced her American citizenship and settled in a Ukrainian city as a full-fledged Russian citizen, it was learned on authority tonight...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 11/17/1939 | See Source »

...most recent resignations have been those of John L. Lowes, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, emeritus; Fred N. Robinson '91, Gurney Professor of English Literature, emeritus; and John T. Murray '99, Professor of English, emeritus. All of these resignations were tendered last June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Professorship Additions to English Staff Are Held Unlikely | 11/16/1939 | See Source »

Japan, Victorian England, and Harlem is a wild combination in any man's way of thinking. But such a combination conceived by Messrs. Todd, Short, and Robinson, and put on as "The Hot Mikado" is an all-time high in sacrilegious lunacy. Gilbert and Sullivan worshippers would probably rather hear a Goodman rendition of Beethoven's Ninth than their beloved "Mikado" slapped into the groove by a lot of Darktown strutters. But like so many iconoclasts, Michael Todd seems to be getting away with his Great Idea and packing the houses as royally as any D'Oyly Carte company ever...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: The Playgoer | 11/8/1939 | See Source »

...Savannah heat-wave, Rose Brown, whose Kaisha was vaguely reminiscent of Josephine Baker, but it's all quite futile. The show belongs to the great Bojangles. The rest of the cast can only be thankful that they have a chance to do something in the first act, for when Robinson comes on in the second, he takes over and all the rest of the cast can do is sit back and shrug. It would be nice to bounce one's grand-children on one's knee many years hence and tell them about Bill Robinson. But the chances are that...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: The Playgoer | 11/8/1939 | See Source »

...John J. Robinson, President of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, will speak before the Business Economic Council tonight in the Adams House Upper Common Room at 8:15 o'clock. His subject will be "Current Economic Problems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Robinson Speaks Tonight | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

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