Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agente di polizia stopped the fight, arrested Mr. Abbott for having "spoken disrespectfully in public of Premier Mussolini." His mother, sister, uncle testified that the whole affair was a "frame...
...Abbott spent the week in jail. Meanwhile the law making it a criminal offense for anyone to speak derogatorily of Mussolini was applied to a woman for the first time, last week, when a certain Malvina Fregoli was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment...
John Adams Abbott, Bostonian, descendant of John Adams, graduate of Gorton, odist of his class at Harvard ('25), stood in line last week to purchase a ticket which would admit him to the Vatican. One Salvatore Astrologo, guide, jostled him or was jostled. High words in several languages ensued. Later Astrologo, accompanied by two friends, attacked Abbott near his hotel...
...further contradiction to claims advanced by labor leaders that the general strike was only part of the peaceful methods for economic reconstruction adopted by the Trade Unions, Professor Abbott quoted the late Samuel Gompers to the effect that "direct action is both tragic and fantastic" and that "destroying political democracy cannot by any interpretation be called constructive or productive of permanent benefit." He continued...
Professor Abbott considers that the fundamental trouble in the mining situation is that there are too many mines in an industry which already needs retrenchment and consideration. He said, "This is one of the evils often produced by industrialism. A possible remedy is emigration but the difficulty there is that the surplus workers do not as a rule settle on the land. They have received a highly specialized training and they are both unable and unwilling to adapt themselves to new conditions...