Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rollin Abbott Wilbur, onetime (1929) president of Investment Bankers Association of America, severed his connections with Society for Savings and Central United National Bank of Cleveland in order to take charge of the work of mending Toledo's broken banks (TIME...
Died, Ernest Hamlin Abbott, 61, son of the late Rev. Lyman Abbott and his successor as editor-in-chief of The Outlook (1923-28), author (Religious Life in America, On the Training of Parents); at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson...
Next most exciting thing to being addressed by the President of the U. S. was to have present during the convention small, motherly Mrs. Harriet Abbott ("Mother") Clark, widow of Rev. Francis Edward Clark who founded Christian Endeavor in Portland, Me. in 1881. Thrilled was she, she said, when President Hoover spoke of this "most enduring monument to the idealism, insight and organizing genius of its founder." Honorary vice president of the society, she listened eagerly at its meetings, let herself be photographed with William Quinn, Chief of San Francisco police. Burly Chief Quinn looked down at Mother Clark...
...Grace Abbott, Chief of the Children's Bureau, U. S. Department of Labor . . . LLGMD...
...England traditions, Exeter welcomed to its 150th anniversary not primarily men of wealth or family but men of learning. At the commemorative exercises, the platform was crowded with the deans and presidents of the great Eastern colleges and schools. Speech of the day was that of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard, who asked for less coddling and babying in modern education, declared that a child should read "fluently" at five and "certainly at six" and went on to say: "This retardation runs through the whole process. In the secondary school we study what should have been finished earlier...