Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Birthdays, Harvard University's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 78; Colonel Edward Riley Bradley, 75; William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, 75; Hearstman Arthur Brisbane, 70; New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, 52; Albert Frederick Arthur George, Duke of York...
...your most worthy and accurate periodical, I am taking the liberty of requesting you to correct a misstatement on p. 11 of the Nov. 26 issue, wherein you state Mabel Walker Willebrandt was the first woman to be appointed to a sub-Cabinet position. The fact is, Annette Abbott Adams was appointed Assistant Attorney General on June 26, 1920, resigning on Aug. 15, 1921. I am asking you to make this correction in fairness not only to Annette Abbott Adams but to Woodrow Wilson who, rather than Warren Harding, was the first President to appoint a woman...
Reader Kerrigan is correct. Annette Abbott Adams also has the distinction of being the first woman U. S. District Attorney, served in the Northern California District (July 25, 1918-June...
Charged with "wilful negligence" were the vessel's Acting Captain William F. Warms and Chief Engineer Eben Starr Abbott. Charged with "fraud, neglect and connivance in violation of law" was Executive Vice President Henry E. Cabaud of New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Co.. which chartered the Morro Castle from its parent company, Atlantic. Gulf & West Indies Steamship Lines (Agwi). Likewise indicted was the company itself, known to the trade as the Ward Line. Released on $2,500 bail each, the individual defendants face a maximum penalty of 10 years' imprisonment, $10,000 fine...
...Presidential appointment of the week: Katharine F. Lenroot, daughter of one-time Republican Senator Irvine L. Lenroot of Wisconsin and assistant chief of the Labor Department's Children's Bureau since 1922; to be the Bureau's chief vice Grace Abbott, resigned...