Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Canada's Douglas Abbott has recently been suffering a peculiar kind of financial embarrassment for which almost every other finance minister in the world might envy him. In his budget speech last April, Abbott predicted a $30 million surplus for the 1951-52 fiscal year. Instead, after seven months of steadily mounting national income, the treasury is brimming with a surplus of $604.7 million...
...middle of the last century, the Reverend Mr. Jacob Abbott wrote a series of guide-books for children in which a character named Rollo asked endless questions of his Uncle George. Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Freshman likes to quote from a parody of the series called "Rollo Visits Cambridge" in which Rollo asks Uncle George--"What is a Dean?" and his sage relative replies: "A Dean is a sedate gentleman seated at 'an official guide to the University' allowed to receive no fees for his service." Then Dean Leighton sometimes adds: "laying aside my solitaire for a moment...
Divorced. George Abbott, 65, Broadway producer, playwright (The Boys from Syracuse) and director (Call Me Madam); by TV Actress Mary (Studio One, Suspense) Sinclair, 28; after five years of marriage; in Reno...
...University will not go unrepresented in the double scull event, with law student Pete Heller '48 rowing stroke and Gordon Abbott '50 pulling...
Another stringer who has become something of a specialist is Bill Abbott, who spent most of the past year digging into Florida crime and aiding the Kefauver Committee...