Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gloveman Lucius Nathan Littauer of Gloversville, N. Y. a year and a half ago (TIME, Dec. 23, 1935), will be the first formal attempt by a U. S. university to provide training for public servants. Such a school was the lifetime dream of President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell whose standard work on The Government of England laments the absence of a U. S. counterpart to the university-trained British Civil Service. After accepting the gift of Gloveman Littauer, who once sat in Congress (1897-1907), Chemist Conant appointed a steering committee headed by Princeton's public-spirited President Harold...
...third-floor office in the gloomy old Federal Building in Minneapolis one morning last week, Special Master in Chancery Howard Strickland Abbott donned his black topcoat, his grey fedora, picked up his brief case and set out for the yards of Minneapolis & St. Louis R. R. It was Mr. Abbott's duty to put that dilapidated 1,600-mi. railroad on the auction block. By court order he was to offer the road at "the main entrance of the division superintendent's office at the Cedar Lake Shops." Arriving at the precise spot on the second floor...
Shortly Mr. Abbott looked up from his document to announce to himself: "The sale is had pursuant to the decrees entered, and decrees provided that at any time the sale can be adjourned by public oral announcement to rooms in the division superintendent's office." At that point Mr. Abbott muttered: "Adjournment is now taken.'' Picking up his brief case, he stalked into the offices, looked around for an empty desk, hung up his hat and coat, got out more documents. No one paid any attention. He had 14 parcels of property to offer...
...railroad put screws on their Congressmen, who have thus far blocked the Jones partition plan. Old Frederick Henry Prince, who has bought and sold a railroad or two in his 77 crotchety years, also had a plan for M. & St. L. but that got nowhere at all. Meantime, Mr. Abbott conducts his auctions without benefit of buyers...
Wilbur C. Abbott, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, lectures today at 10 o'clock in History 42, in Emerson A and for the last time faces a class as an active member of the University...