Word: almoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another scholarship plan for British lads was announced by Headmaster Mather Almon Abbott of Lawrenceville School (N. J.). A onetime crew coach and Latin teacher at Yale, Dr. Abbott was born in Halifax, educated at Oxford. Three students will be selected annually from Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester, Shrewsbury, the schools which Dr. Abbott believes mold British opinion-makers. They will spend holidays with their U. S. schoolmates, will take a special course of Dr. Abbott's devising: U. S. History, physics and chemistry, higher mathematics and modern languages (which some pedagogs think are taught better in U. S. secondary...
MURDER AT ENDOR-William Almon Wolff-Minton, Balch ($2). Tragedy shadowed the Major's "Southern" mansion in New Jersey; the suspected young journalist clears the family name...
...House Georgia's Crisp proposed annihilating the Farm Board. Alabama's Almon would grant veterans 100% loans on their bonus certificates. Massachusetts' Tinkham wanted a Washington Hall of Fame and New York's Celler, a Negro industrial commission. Georgia's Vinson would build the Navy up by $760,000,000 to full treaty limits. New York's Bacon proposed bus and truck regulation by the I. C. C. Wet bills, including a constitutional amendment by Connecticut's Tilson to return liquor control to the States, glutted both houses. Texas' Blanton touched...
...Field of Sunset Magazine; Author Wallace Irwin (Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy) ex-1900, and his brother Will, biographer of President Hoover; Board Chairman Henry Suzzallo of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Senators Charles Linza McNary of Oregon; Carl Trumbull Hayden of Arizona, ex-1900; President Almon Edward Roth of Rotary International; Writer Robert Luther Duffus of the New York Times; Vice President Paul Downing of Pacific Gas & Electric Co.; Editor Bruce Bliven of The New Republic; District Attorney Charles Marron Fickert who helped send Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings to jail...
Accepted, By Rev. Dr. Stephen Edwards Keeler, rector of St. Chrysostom's Episcopal Church, famed for its Chicago socialite congregation (he succeeded Rt. Rev. Henry Pryor Almon Abbott, brother of Headmaster Mather Almon Abbott of Lawrenceville School, who is now Bishop of Lexington, Ky.); the call to be Bishop Coadjutor of the diocese of Minnesota, to which he was elected three weeks...