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In May 1918 sedition charges were laid under the Espionage Act against Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society president " Judge " Joseph Rutherford and seven other Watch Tower directors and officers over statements made in the society's book, The Finished Mystery, published a year earlier.
On June 21 seven of the directors, including Rutherford, were sentenced to the maximum 20 years ' imprisonment for each of four charges, to be served concurrently.
By 1916 Rutherford had become one of the seven directors of the Watch Tower Society ; when Russell died on October 31, 1916 he joined vice-President Alfred I. Ritchie and Secretary-Treasurer William E. Van Amburgh on a three-man executive committee that ran the Pennsylvania corporation until a new president was elected at the annual general meeting the following January.
By June, four of the seven Watch Tower Society directors — Robert H. Hirsh, Alfred I. Ritchie, Isaac F. Hoskins and James D. Wright — had decided they had erred in endorsing Rutherford's expanded powers of management, claiming Rutherford had become autocratic.
Warrants were issued for the arrest of Rutherford and seven other Watch Tower directors, who were charged under the 1917 Espionage Act of attempting to cause insubordination, disloyalty, refusal of duty in the armed forces and obstructing the recruitment and enlistment service of the U. S. while it was at war.
On June 21 seven of them, including Rutherford, were sentenced to 20 years ' imprisonment.
In 1927, during the presidency of Joseph Franklin Rutherford, the Watch Tower Society ceased publication of all seven volumes of Studies in the Scriptures, as several core doctrines had been changed from what Russell had taught.

Rutherford and other
The other Rutherford films ( all directed by George Pollock ) were Murder at the Gallop ( 1963 ), based on the 1953 Hercule Poirot novel After the Funeral ( In this film, she is identified as Miss JTV Marple, though there was no indication as to what the extra initials might stand for ); Murder Most Foul ( 1964 ), based on the 1952 Poirot novel Mrs McGinty's Dead ; and Murder Ahoy!
He and Rutherford realized that the anomalous behaviour of radioactive elements was because they decayed into other elements.
The Saints were forced to play their first scheduled home game against the New York Giants at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey ( the Giants ' home stadium ); other home games were rescheduled at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas or Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
One type had short pentration and a positive charge, which Rutherford named alpha and the other was more penetrating with a negative charge, and this type Rutherford named beta.
Rutherford and Davis ( who died in 1973 ) are interred alongside each other in the graveyard of St. James's Church, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire.
Libraries and museums have been established for other presidents, but they are not part of the NARA presidential library system, and are operated by private foundations, historical societies, or state governments, including the William McKinley, Rutherford Hayes, Calvin Coolidge, Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson libraries.
After the election results became known in August, his departure to Texas was delayed by a court appearance in the last week of October as co-executor of his deceased father-in-law ’ s estate, and he finally left his home near Rutherford in West Tennessee on Nov. 1, 1835, with three other men to explore Texas.
Countless other musicians passed through the SME over the years, including Derek Bailey, Paul Rutherford, Maggie Nichols, Dave Holland, Barry Guy, Peter Kowald and Kent Carter.
" Because of similar insurgent paramilitary violence in other areas of the state, especially during campaigns and elections, federal troops remained in Louisiana until 1877, when they were removed on orders of U. S. President Rutherford B. Hayes.
Half of South Bristol is located on a peninsula, the other half on Rutherford Island.
After FDU expanded to a four-year college and then to offering graduate programs, it acquired other, larger, campuses, and eventually left Rutherford, offering the campus for sale due to financial difficulties.
While Prout's hypothesis was not borne out by later more-accurate measurements of atomic weights, it was a sufficiently fundamental insight into the structure of the atom that in 1920, Ernest Rutherford chose the name of the newly-discovered proton to, among other reasons, give credit to Prout.
Rutherford also conjectured that all nuclei other than hydrogen contain chargeless particles, which he named the neutron.
When the British ship was decommissioned in 1879, Queen Victoria ordered twin desks made from its timbers, keeping one and presenting the other as a gift to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880.
The Liberal Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta, George Bulyea, determined that for the sake of the Liberal Party of Alberta Rutherford had to be pushed aside in favour of a new Premier ; when other prominent Liberals declined it, the position was offered to Sifton.
The other new additions to cabinet — Malcolm McKenzie as Provincial Treasurer and Charles Stewart in the new position of Minister of Municipal Affairs — had voted with the Rutherford government during the scandal.
In a letter to Alexander Cameron Rutherford in early 1906, while he was in the process of setting up McGill University College in Vancouver, Tory wrote, " If you take any steps in the direction of a working University and wish to avoid the mistakes of the past, mistakes which have fearfully handicapped other institutions, you should start on a teaching basis.
At a 1931 Bible Student assembly in Columbus, Ohio Rutherford proposed a new name for the organization, Jehovah's witnesses, to differentiate them from the proliferation of other groups that followed Russell's teachings.
The official history of Jehovah's Witnesses also notes, " Rutherford personally shared with other conventioners as they engaged in the work of Kingdom proclamation from house to house.
" On August 2, 1928 in a meeting with the Bible Student elders who had attended a general convention in Detroit, Michigan Rutherford listed his responsibilities and concluded " when I have attended to many other details, I have not had very much time to go from door to door.
Walter F. Salter, the Society's former branch manager in Canada, wrote a public letter to Rutherford in 1937, the month he was expelled from the religion, claiming that Rutherford had exclusive use of " luxurious " and " expensive " residences ( in Brooklyn, Staten Island, Germany, and San Diego ), as well as two Cadillacs and alleged that on more than one occasion he had purchased for Rutherford cases of whiskey, brandy, beer and other liquors, and ' go from " drink to drink "'.

Rutherford and Watch
Prominent Bible Students A. H. Macmillan and J. F. Rutherford were both appointed pilgrims before they joined the board of directors of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania ; the IBSA later adopted the name Jehovah's Witnesses and renamed pilgrims as traveling overseers.
The practices of Jehovah's Witnesses are based on the Bible teachings of Charles Taze Russell, founder of the Bible Student movement, and successive presidents of the Watch Tower Society, Joseph Franklin Rutherford and Nathan Homer Knorr.
* Joseph Franklin Rutherford ( Founder of Jehovah's Witnesses and 2nd President of the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society ) Other references list his birthplace as Versailles, Missouri.
* Joseph Franklin Rutherford ( Founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses and 2nd President of the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society )
On Monday, June 3, 1935, Watch Tower Society president J. F. Rutherford, was interviewed at a Witness convention about " the flag salute by children in school ".
Joseph Rutherford, president of the Watch Tower Society,
Among those who have been charged with offenses under the Act are former Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society president Joseph F. Rutherford, communists Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, and alleged cablegate whistleblower Bradley Manning.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford ( November 8, 1869 – January 8, 1942 ), also known as " Judge " Rutherford, was the second president of the incorporated Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, and played a primary role in the organization and doctrinal development of Jehovah's Witnesses, which emerged from the Bible Student movement established by Charles Taze Russell.
Rutherford immediately wrote to the Watch Tower Society to express appreciation for the books.
On January 6, 1917, Rutherford, aged 47, was elected president of the Watch Tower Society, unopposed, at the Pittsburgh convention.
The Watch Tower Society's official 1959 account of its history claimed the legal advice given to the ousted directors confirmed that given to Rutherford ; however, the pamphlets produced by the expelled board members at the time indicated that their legal advice, acquired from several attorneys, disagreed with Rutherford's.
Rutherford later claimed Satan had " tried to prevent the publication of that article ... but failed in that effort "; In 1927 the Watch Tower Society ceased printing of Russell's Studies in the Scriptures.
The Editorial Committee was dissolved in 1931, after which Rutherford wrote every leading article in The Watch Tower until his death.
Rutherford expanded his means of spreading the Watch Tower message in 1924 with the start of 15-minute radio broadcasts, initially from WBBR, based on Staten Island, and eventually via a network of as many as 480 radio stations.
In 1933 Rutherford claimed that abolishing elective elders was a fulfillment of the prophecy of 2300 days at Daniel 8: 13 – 14, and that God's sanctuary ( the Watch Tower Society ) was thereby cleansed.
In 1938 he introduced the term " theocracy " to describe the religion's system of government, with Consolation explaining: " The Theocracy is at present administered by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, of which Judge Rutherford is the president and general manager.
Rutherford expanded on this view in the March 1, 1925 issue of The Watch Tower in the article " Birth of The Nation ", which he later acknowledged " caused a real stir or shake-up within the ranks.
An article in the January 1, 1926 Watch Tower introduced new emphasis on the importance of the name " Jehovah "; from 1929 Rutherford taught that the vindication of God's name — which would ultimately occur when millions of unbelievers were destroyed at Armageddon — was the primary doctrine of Christianity and more important than God's display of goodness or grace toward humankind.

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