Word: abbott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white" Press as were aware of the troubles of ex-Publisher Edward Beale McLean of the Washington Post and Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean last week found vague analogy in the adventures of their own most famed publishing family. No. 1 Negro publisher is capable, courteous Robert Sengstacke Abbott, 62, founder-owner of the Chicago Defender ("World's Greatest Weekly")* and Abbott's Monthly, only Negro fiction magazine. Like Publisher McLean he is a loyal Republican. His wife, Mrs. Helen Thornton Abbott, who says she thinks she is 36 but is not certain, is practically white-skinned, with straight...
...Chicago court last week Mrs. Abbott demanded: 1) separate maintenance from her husband, whom she accuses of peccadillos (as did Mrs. McLean); 2) removal of her ailing husband as publisher because she asserted he was letting the paper go to ruin through neglect (as did Mrs. McLean). There the analogy ends...
Whereas Mrs. McLean wanted to buy the Post for herself and her sons, Mrs. Abbott, childless, asked a receivership for the Defender. (Presumably, however, she hoped to get it for herself.) Whereas the Post admittedly has been losing money for years the Defender has picked up after its Depression slump and, according to its owner, is making a little money. According to the owner's wife it is worth $1,000,000. (Eugene Meyer got the Post last fortnight for only $825,000.) Fun-loving "Ned" McLean could not be bothered with business. Round-faced Publisher Abbott was kept...
...Abbott Lawrence Lowell, worthy successor of Leverett,--men who filled the bowls of the ancients with new wine. Presented by the teachers of Arts and Sciences, June 13, 1933, in token of their affection...
...Abbott Lawrence Lowell LL.D...