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...night last week at an inn some 20 miles from Washington, 80 women from the U. S. Children's Bureau picked at the last crumbs of a Maryland chicken & dumpling dinner. They had gathered to do honor to their chief. Grace ("G. A.") Abbott, who had resigned and was leaving Washington for good. Thirteen years ago, after an apprenticeship in Chicago's Hull House, Grace Abbott was picked by President Harding to succeed the late great Julia Lathrop as the second chief of the Children's Bureau. She hung a big, red-splotched...
...leather-bound book bulging with press comments on her resignation. Then one of them clapped a hand on her shoulder and solemnly announced: "You're under arrest." In silence she was led up to one of the tables, cleared of everybody save a judge. The charge against Miss Abbott: deserting 43,000,000 U. S. children. One by one her workers took the stand to give testimony. Attorney for Defendant Abbott offered in evidence the fact that her name was not listed in 500 Delinquent Women (TIME, Oct. 1). By unanimous vote she was found guilty. The judge sentenced...
...years, as chief of the Children's Bureau, Miss Abbott's name has appeared on the inside page of a slim, yellow booklet let called Infant Care and sold by the Government for 10?. The Bible of young mothers, Infant Care, since it was first issued in 1914, has sold more than 8,000,000 copies, a record equaled only by In His Steps...
...betrayed him dying at his feet; then to drop dead himself. He gets both wishes. One or two of Small Miracle's side excursions are gratuitous and one or two are trite, but the tangled threads never slip out of the capable hands of Director George Abbott. The net effect is as pungent and authentic as the gunpowder smoke that clouds the stage...
...them exhibited either the grossest lack of seamanship or the utmost cowardice. Chief Engineer Eben S. Abbott, awakened in his quarters, went to rouse his first assistant. The first assistant was already on his way to his fire station in the engine room. That was also Chief Abbott's station but he did not go there. Instead he telephoned down to see how things were going. He then toured the ship to inspect the fire. Soon he met the first assistant on his way up from below. By this time Chief Abbott had decided that "it was every...