Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having been convicted fortnight ago of criminal negligence in the burning of the T. E. L. Mono Castle, the defendants last week received the following sentences: Acting Captain William F. Warms, two years in jail; Chief Engineer Eben Starr Abbott, four years in jail; New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Co., a fine of $10,000; its executive Vice President Henry E. Cabaud, a fine of $5,000, a suspended sentence of a year in jail...
Convicted of criminal negligence were The New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Co., operator of the Ward liner; Executive Vice President Henry E. Cabaud, the shore official in charge of safeguarding the Morro Castle; Acting Captain William F. Warms and Chief Engineer Eben Starr Abbott, the two chief officers of the ship which took 124 lives...
...them in order to keep the liner busy. 5) Captain Warms had no command over his crew, which was completely disorganized. 6) During the fire, he hesitated too long in sending out an SOS, failed to tend to the passengers until too late, handled his ship incompetently. 7) Engineer Abbott did not know his job, never went to his post during the crisis but fled in the first lifeboat, where he plucked off his officer's insignia, murmured: "I'll be jailed for this...
DESOLATE MARCHES-L. M. Nesbitt- Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Account of an
engineering trip through northern Venezuela, by the author of
Hell-Hole of Creation (TIME, March 25), who was killed last July in
an airplane crash in Switzerland. ADVENTURES IN REPUTATION - Wilbur
Cortez Abbott-Harvard University Press ($2.50). Brief but penetrating
sketches of Macaulay, Lord Chesterfield, Queen Victoria, Cromwell et
al. AMERICAN NEUTRALITY, 1914-1917- Charles Seymour-F
Harvard's long-legged Yankee President James Bryant Conant is rapidly proving himself as able a money-getter as his canny predecessor, Abbott Lawrence Lowell. While pocketing with one hand the $2,000,000 gift of Gloveman Lucius Nathan Littauer for a Graduate School of Public Administration (TIME, Dec. 23), he dashed off with the other an appeal for Harvard's Three Hundredth Anniversary Fund. The Fund will be used partly for fat, new scholarships, partly to establish University Professorships. The "roving professors" may work where they choose, breaking down the artificial barriers between fields. Rich Harvardmen were...