Word: abbott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...middle of the last century, the Reverend Mr. Jacob Abbott wrote a series of guide books for children in which a character named Rollo asked endless questions of his Uncle George. Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Students, likes to quote from a parody of the series called Rollo Visits Cambridge in which Rollo asks Uncle George, "what is a Dean?" and his sage relation answers: "A Dean is a sedate gentleman scated at a table playing solitaire, but he is also sort of a beadle, 'an official guide to the University' allowed to receive no fees for his services." Then...
...middle of the last century, the Reverend Mr. Jacob Abbott wrote a series of guide books for children in which a character named Rollo asked endless questions of his Uncle George. Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Students, likes to quote from a parody of the series called Rollo Visits Cambridge in which Rollo asks Uncle George, "what is a Dean?" and his sage relation answers: "A Dean is a sedate gentleman scated at a table playing solitaire, but he is also sort of a beadle, 'an official guide to the University' allowed to receive no fees for his services." Then...
Eisenhower's Working Staff: includes Arthur Vandenberg, executive assistant; James Hagerty, press secretary; Abbott Washburn, correspondence secretary...
...same thing happened last year, when Abbott budgeted for a surplus of $30 million and finished the year with nearly $1 billion to spare. Chief reasons for both surpluses: the Canadian business boom and the government's avoidance of direct price and wage controls (insisting, until recently, on strict credit controls...
Last year Abbott was accused of over taxing the public and misplanning the country's financial affairs. Last week he coughed apologetically and explained that $262,500,000 surplus is really not so big as it looks. In the next few months, he said, many outstanding expenditures (e.g., defense contracts, tax subsidies) must be paid off, which will use up much of the government's cash...