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Upton Sinclair, hack writer extraordinary to the Socialist Cause, once wrote dime novels for a living. Now he writes them in all seriousness. Like his literary cousins, the late Jacob Abbott and Horatio Alger, Sinclair is apt to make his heroes into preposterous prigs. In The Wet Parade he has out-prigged himself: his hero is a conscientious Prohibition agent...
University officials do not like to talk of their affairs until things have actually happened. Even then, Harvard's elderly President Abbott Lawrence Lowell often refuses to talk directly to the Press. Boston and Cambridge were wondering last week what would be the result of an article in the Boston Globe which purported to reveal the name of the next dean of the faculty of Arts & Sciences-next most important position to that of the president of the University. This week the Harvard Board of Overseers meets to elect a successor to the late Clifford Herschel Moore, who died...
...Rollin Abbott Wilbur, onetime (1929) president of Investment Bankers Association of America, severed his connections with Society for Savings and Central United National Bank of Cleveland in order to take charge of the work of mending Toledo's broken banks (TIME...
Died, Ernest Hamlin Abbott, 61, son of the late Rev. Lyman Abbott and his successor as editor-in-chief of The Outlook (1923-28), author (Religious Life in America, On the Training of Parents); at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson...
Next most exciting thing to being addressed by the President of the U. S. was to have present during the convention small, motherly Mrs. Harriet Abbott ("Mother") Clark, widow of Rev. Francis Edward Clark who founded Christian Endeavor in Portland, Me. in 1881. Thrilled was she, she said, when President Hoover spoke of this "most enduring monument to the idealism, insight and organizing genius of its founder." Honorary vice president of the society, she listened eagerly at its meetings, let herself be photographed with William Quinn, Chief of San Francisco police. Burly Chief Quinn looked down at Mother Clark...