Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...among the fairies?" "That's up to you-lead your own life." He also has one or two opportunities to dance. Dorothy Stone and Doris Patston dance too. So do Messrs. Royston and Collins. All dance well, individually, in pairs and in threesomes. The chorus directed by Merriel Abbott dances better than nine white choruses out of ten. There is a great deal of dancing, but not quite enough. If everybody in it danced all the time Smiling Faces would be a fine show...
Manager v. Swinger. California has had no Democratic Senator since James Duval Phelan's term expired in 1921. On the Aug. 30 primary ballot are six names: Parson M. Abbott, Maurice James McCarthy, Annie Riley Hale, Robert Pierce Shuler, Justus S. Wardell, William Gibbs McAdoo. Abbott and McCarthy are irreconcilable supporters of Alfred Emanuel Smith who still think this is 1928. The candidacy of Mrs. Hale (Colyumist Heywood Broun's mother-in-law) is not taken seriously. ''Bob" Shuler, a radio revivalist, is a political maverick who is also running in the Republican primary. The real race appeared...
...Grace Abbott, chief of U. S. Children's Bureau LL.D...
...managed mostly by leaders of the State's Democratic organization. His energetic young son James went out to electioneer. On primary eve the Roosevelt forces made prodigious claims about sweeping the State. A Smith campaign had been conducted by good 1928 friends of the Brown Derby - Parson M. Abbott, David F. Supple, Edward W. Cahill -whose strategy was to depend on old loyalties rather than new issues. Meantime the Garner candidacy was backed by three potent Californians - William Gibbs McAdoo, William Randolph Hearst, Will Rogers. The onetime Secretary of the Treasury, heading the slate of Garner delegates, actively campaigned...
...Communion, celebrated by the Cathedral's Dean George Carl Fitch Bratenahl, and a sermon, broadcast to the U. S. by stocky Rt. Rev. James Edward Freeman, Bishop of Washington. There would be a procession in which would march representatives of other sects and Episcopal Bishops Darst of East Carolina, Abbott of Lexington, Ky., Jett of Southwestern Virginia, Cook of Delaware, Rhinelander (retired) of Pennsylvania. Most Rev. James De Wolf Perry, Presiding Bishop of the Church, was to send as his representative Bishop Hugh Latimer Burleson of South Dakota. New York's small Bishop Manning agreed to come. An honorary canon...