Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...granting the 31-day respite, the Governor did not give any indication of what may be his final action. His Advisory Committee (President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard, President Samuel W. Stratton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Judge Robert Grant) has not as yet held any meetings, presumably owing to Commencement duties of two of its members. Friends of Mr. Sacco & Mr. Vanzetti were disappointed because the respite was only for one month, but of course there is no reason why Governor Fuller cannot grant as many additional respites as seem necessary...
University of Toronto LL. D. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, president Harvard University LL. D. Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, preacher...
...Rice, Chairman, Miss Katherine Abbott; W. K. Rice, Miss Marianne Coleman; C. H. Ely, Miss Mary Noyes; A. F. Lemmon, Miss Dorothea Sibley; W. G. Moody, Miss Rosalind Kelsey; D. H. Bowles...
...hour and there are men, and women too, who have had their famous moments. Fickle and feverish attention is the vice of a child. There is much material for the sociologist in the childishness of the American public. The tabloids have exploited it professionally. Walter Lippmann and Professor Abbott have touched upon it philosophically. Realistic novelists have for several decades past been turning it to hand in one form or another. Still the impression persists that only the surface phenomena have been observed, and that in a chosen analysis of the mind of the public, individually and collectively, lies much...
...Committee. Most famed among the three committeemen is Abbott Lawrence Lowell, since 1909 President of Harvard University. Before entering the Harvard Faculty he had 17 years' experience in the practice of law, has made the science of government his specialty and has written two books on the character and potency of public opinion...