Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three cheers to Reader Ritter, and if only women freaks (Husband Abbott) read TIME, may I be classed as a freak, for if needs must be that the beds go unmade and the five little Graves and Daddy Graves go without meals, Mamma Graves will continue to read TIME from cover to cover and be a happy freak...
...First-Letter-Writer Ginsburg. praise for an able portrait of a pleasant lady. -ED. Abbott Flayed...
...Husband Abbott certainly displays the eternal egotism of the male. We are sure he has been most unfortunate in the women he has known...
During Publisher Abbott's illness of the past two years the Defender has been run by his right-hand man, Nathan K. McGill, brown-skinned onetime Assistant Attorney General in Illinois, onetime Assistant State's Attorney. His divorced wife, Idalee, is Mrs. Abbott's sister, two years younger, a few shades darker and not so good looking. Mrs. Abbott charges that McGill runs the business badly and that he continues to draw his salary of $700 a week although he insists that neither he nor Publisher Abbott (salary $2,000 a week) has drawn money...
Last year Mrs. Abbott was awarded temporary maintenance of $300 a month, use of their 11-room house on the South Side, the Pierce-Arrow, Arthur the chauffeur and Rosalee the maid. Publisher Abbott was permitted to keep the Rolls Royce which, he has confided to friends, he bought second-hand to set at rest the gossip of competing Negro papers that the Defender was on the rocks...