Other more recent political figures educated at Columbia include U. S President Barack Obama, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank Alan Greenspan, U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and U. S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr .. Dwight D. Eisenhower served as the thirteenth president of Columbia University from 1948 to 1953.

Ruth Fainlight has written dozens of poems about these ambiguous figures, bridging religion, classical and Biblical settings, femininity and modernity.

" General opinion now tends to regard Till Eulenspiegel as an entirely imaginary figure around whose name was gathered a cycle of tales popular in the Middle Ages ," Ruth Michaelis-Jena observes " Yet legendary figures need a definite background to make them memorable and Till needed the reality of the Braunschweig landscape and real towns to which he could travel — Cologne, Rostock, Bremen and Marburg among them — and whose burghers become the victims of his pranks.

Among the other productions of his genius are the Deluge, which represents two angels speeding above the desolate earth from which the destroying waters have just begun to retire, leaving visible behind them the ruin they have wrought ; the Battle of the Lemanus, a piece of elaborate design, crowded but not encumbered with figures, and giving fine expression to the movements of the various bands of combatants and fugitives ; the Prodigal Son, in which the artist has ventured to add to the parable the new element of mother's love, greeting the repentant youth with a welcome that shows that the mother's heart thinks less of the repentance than of the return ; Ruth and Boaz ; Ulysses and Nausicaa ; Hercules at the Feet of Omphale ; the Young Athenian, or, as it is popularly called, Sappho ; Minerva and the Nymphs ; Venus and Adonis ; Daphnis and Chloë ; and Love and the Parcae.

Many wealthy New Yorkers vacationed at the lake during weekends, including prominent figures such as Babe Ruth, who stayed in a house on the West Side of the lake.

According to author Mark Inabinett in his 1994 work, Grantland Rice and His Heroes: The Sportswriter as Mythmaker in the 1920s, Rice very consciously set out to make heroes of sports figures who impressed him, most notably Jack Dempsey, Babe Ruth, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden, Red Grange, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, and Knute Rockne.

In the United States ' sports-mad decade of the Roaring Twenties Tilden was one of the six dominant figures of the " Golden Age of Sport ", along with Babe Ruth, Howie Morenz, Red Grange, Bobby Jones, and Jack Dempsey.

No lesser figures than Babe Ruth and Walter Johnson named him the best first baseman ever, and contemporary reports describe his glovework as outstanding.

Ruth First was one of the defendants in the Treason Trial of 1956-1961, alongside 156 other leading anti-apartheid activists who were key figures in the Congress Alliance.

Unlike most Biblical genealogies, Matthew's genealogy mentions several figures not in the direct line of descent, including four women, Tamar, Ruth, Bathsheba, and Rahab.

The figures in the window are :- first light, Boaz ; second light, Ruth and above her Jacob ; middle light, Abraham and Isaac ; above them, the Blessed Virgin Mary and Child ; at the top, Asa ; fourth light, David with Solomon above him ; fifth light, Jesse.

It also mentions two women, Rahab and Ruth, both of whom are prominent Old Testament figures.

The Sepia exhibition displayed more than 40 images originally in the magazine during its 35 years of publication – some not seen since their original printing – of African-American musical figures, including James Brown, Ruth Brown, Ray Charles, Mahalia Jackson, Bob Marley, Jackie Wilson, Erroll Garner and Dizzy Gillespie.

Her 1997 memoir, Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country, is an account of her childhood in South Africa and her relationship with her parents Joe Slovo and Ruth First — both famous South Africans and major figures in the anti-apartheid struggle who lived perilous lives of exile, armed resistance, and occasional imprisonment, which culminated in her mother's murder by South African forces in 1982.

In his minor way Charles Arthur Shires was perhaps more typical of his era than Ruth was, for he was but one of many young men who laid waste their talents in these Scott Fitzgerald days for the sake of earning space in the newspapers.

But the tactic fell into relative disuse after Babe Ruth introduced the era of the home run – in 1955, for example, no one in baseball stole more than 25 bases, and Dom DiMaggio won the AL stolen base title in 1950 with just 15.

Ruth retired in 1935 after a short stint with the Boston Braves, and the following year, he became one of the first five players to be elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Ruth was the first player to hit 60 home runs in one season ( 1927 ), a mark first eclipsed by Roger Maris in 1961 with 61.

Unlike many power hitters, Ruth also hit for a high batting average: his. 342 lifetime average is the tenth highest in baseball history, and in one season ( 1923 ) he batted. 393, a Yankee record.

The award, created by the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America ( BBWAA ) in honor of Babe Ruth, was first awarded in 1949, one year after Ruth's death.

However, they then went into one of the longest championship droughts in baseball history, called by some the " Curse of the Bambino " after its alleged beginning with the Red Sox's sale of Babe Ruth to the rival Yankees two years after their world championship in 1918, an 86-year wait before the team's sixth World Championship in.

The Book of Ruth (; Sephardic, Israeli Hebrew: ; Ashkenazi Hebrew: ; Biblical Hebrew: Megilath Ruth " the Scroll of Ruth ") is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible, Tanakh, or Old Testament.

The full title in Hebrew is named after a young woman of Moab, the great-grandmother of David and, according to the Christian tradition, an ancestress of Jesus :, Megillat Ruth, or " the scroll of Ruth ", which places the book as one of the Five Megillot.

Ruth is also commemorated as a matriarch in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod on July 16, and is one of the Five Heroines of the Order of the Eastern Star.

He hit 58 home runs in 1938, equaling Jimmie Foxx's mark for the most home runs in one season by any player between 1927 ( when Babe Ruth set a record of 60 ) and 1961 ( when Roger Maris surpassed it ).

Mead also had an exceptionally close relationship with Ruth Benedict, one of her instructors.

" Meet the Mets " is the Mets ' signature song, written in 1961, one year before the first season, by Bill Katz and Ruth Roberts.

Saul was one of his mother's four brothers, as well as a former semi-pro baseball player who had pitched against Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Joe Gordon in an exhibition game.

Ruth MacDonald argued that “ Louisa May Alcott stands as one of the great American practitioners of the girls ’ novel and the family story .” In the 1860s, gendered separation of children ’ s fiction was a newer division in literature.

She hears voices in her head, each one ostensibly the voice of a person in her life, primarily " The Goodwife " or " Goody Burlingame " ( a somewhat Puritanical version of Jessie ), Ruth Neary ( an old college friend ), and Nora Callighan ( her ex-psychiatrist ), both of whom Jessie hasn't spoken to in decades.

It is said that Babe Ruth hit one of the longest home runs in history in Wilkes-Barre early in the 20th century.

Babe Ruth, noted as one of the most prolific hitters in Major League Baseball history, spent the majority of his career in the American League.

An apocryphal anecdote told by Diego Rivera concerning Utrillo's paternity is related in the unpublished memoirs of one of his American collectors, Ruth Bakwin:

O ' Brien was married to Hazel Ruth Collette in 1925 and they had two sons together, William and Willis, Jr., but the marriage was an unhappy one, which O ' Brien was reportedly forced into and rebelled against with drinking, gambling, and extra-marital affairs.

He was an evangelical Christian for one year, converted in 1977 by evangelist Ruth Carter Stapleton, the sister of President Jimmy Carter.

" As a further indication, of the ten best seasons for OPS, short for On-Base Plus Slugging Percentage, a popular modern measure of offensive productivity, four each were achieved by Ruth and Bonds, and two by Williams.

The Disneys remained in Marceline for four years, before moving to Kansas City in 1911 where Walt and his younger sister Ruth attended the Benton Grammar School.

Novalee gets to know Lexie, who reveals that she has had four children by three different men ( and that Lexie named her children after snack names ; Brownie, Praline, Cherry, and Baby Ruth ).

The farm has been passed down the generations from the original owner Dan ( now deceased ) to his son Phil ( until his death on 13 February 2010 the oldest surviving cast member ), and is now co-owned by three of Phil's four children: David ( who manages it with his wife Ruth ), Elizabeth and Kenton.

Cardoso is a widower ( he was married to Ruth Vilaça Correia Leite Cardoso until her death June 24, 2008 ) and has four children.

Clifton Park also hosts the Babe Ruth World series for boys baseball every four years.

Sir Anthony and his wife Mary had four children: Alexandra Mary ( born 1955 ), Antonia Ruth and Joanna Cynthia ( twins, born 1957 ), and Edward Anthony Morys ( born 1960 ).

Produced by Paul Frankl, and presented by Ivan Hewett with research by Ruth Thomson, this feature was based on interviews with four who knew Kleiber well: tenor and conductor Plácido Domingo, music administrator and Intendant Sir Peter Jonas, music journalist and critic Christine Lemke-Matvey, and conductor – pianist Charles Barber.

Jackson was born to Joseph Eugene Jackson and Ruth Musick in Newnan, Georgia, and has four older siblings.

Dana gave birth to four children ; daughters Grace ( 18 January 1981 ) and Susanna Ruth ( 18 August 1983 ) and sons John-James ( 5 November 1984 ) and Robert ( 25 August 1989 ).

* On June 23, 1917, Babe Ruth, then a pitcher with the Boston Red Sox, walked the Washington Senators ' first batter, Ray Morgan, on four straight pitches.

Born in Mission, Texas, to Ray ( an auto mechanic and volunteer fireman ) and Ruth Landry, Tom was the second of four children ( Robert, Tommy, Ruthie and Jack ).

Ruth was beaten and stabbed four times in the back.

The Red Sox beat the Philadelphia Phillies in the World Series, led by 18-game winner and team home run leader with four, pitcher Babe Ruth, in his first full season.

After Cleveland scored four times in the bottom of the eighth to take a 7 – 3 lead, Boston countered with a run and Coumbe was brought in to face Ruth with the bases loaded, who hit his second homer of the game, as the Sox went on to win, 8 – 7.

He married Dr. Ruth Norton in 1921 and had four sons.

This has only happened four times – to Ulrich Ochsenbein in 1854, to Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel in 1872, to Ruth Metzler-Arnold in 2003 and to Christoph Blocher in 2007.

In the 1980s and 1990s, English novelist Ruth Elwin Harris wrote her Quantock Quartet, a set of novels centred on four sisters growing up around the Quantock Hills during the early 20th century.

Bridges removed the five votes from the final count: four for Rossi and one for Ruth Bennett.

Ruth Mary Reynolds, the American Nationalist, went to the defense of Albizu Campos and the four Nationalists involved in the shooting incident with the aid of the American League for Puerto Rico's Indepen ­ dence.

The rationale for the designated hitter rule is that, with a few exceptions — most notably Babe Ruth, who began his career as a pitcher with the Boston Red Sox — pitchers are usually weak hitters who ordinarily perform once every four or five games.

Munson was born in Akron, Ohio to Darrell Vernon Munson and Ruth Myrna Smylie, the youngest of four children.

With the exception of Ruth Ellis, the remains of the four other women executed at Holloway ( Amelia Sach, Annie Walters, Edith Thompson and Styllou Christofi ) were subsequently reburied in a single grave at Brookwood Cemetery near Woking, Surrey