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Government activities in the field of farm credit are, say the official Business School review, effectively summarized by John K. Galbraith, instructor in Economics, in an article on "The Farmers' Banking System: Four Years of FCA Operations." Charles C. Abbott '28, instructor in Economics, deals with "The Government Corporation as an Economic Institution", a subject about which little has been written. Finally, among articles discoursing on business and the government, Thomas N. Whitehead, assistant professor of Business, comments upon the importance of the presidential election in the United States. He regards the election as reflecting an underlying social and economic...
...loss of 134 lives, in one of the greatest U. S. marine disasters (TIME, Sept. 17, 1934). Though Acting Captain Warms was the last man to leave his ship, a court presently convicted him of criminal negligence, sentenced him to two years in jail. Chief Engineer Eben Starr Abbott, who abandoned ship in the first lifeboat, was convicted on the same charge, given four years in jail. The Ward Line was fined $10,000, its Executive Vice President Henry Edward Cabaud $5,000 (TIME, Feb. 10, 1936). Mr. Cabaud and the Line paid their fines, but Warms and Abbott appealed...
Meeting in Manhattan, the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals had unanimously set aside the convictions of both Warms and Abbott, placed the blame for the ship's unsafe condition wholly upon the Ward Line and deceased Captain Willmott. Censuring the judge who sentenced Warms, the Court held that the acting captain "had maintained the best tradition of the sea by staying on his vessel until the bridge had burned under him." For Abbott's conduct the Court had no commendation, but charitably held that his "futile" behavior was due to smoke-sickness, that in any case...
President-emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77 joined seven business men in a telegram yesterday to Vice-President John N. Garner urging that sit-down strikes be declared illegal by Congress. He demanded that Congress enact and enforce legislation preventing the new labor weapon...
Outcast (Paramount). Though acquitted of murdering a woman who died of an overdose of sedative, Dr. Jones (Warren William) is disgraced, forced to retire to a small town where his name is unknown and where he can begin life anew with the help of old Lawyer Abbott (Lewis Stone). But Margaret Stevens (Karen Morley), sister-in-law of the dead woman, follows Dr. Jones, bent on revenge. She falls in love with him instead, is about to depart when her meddlesome landlady learns about the murder trial publishes the story in the village newspaper. Simultaneously, the landlady's little...