Word: almoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Replaced and disbanded was the less inclusive Industrial Association of San Francisco, long feared and hated by Labor. At the council's head will be hardheaded Almon E. Roth, now president of the Pacific Coast Waterfront Employers Association, who like many another Coast employer has learned to deal with but not to love organized labor...
...break out, this was good news at the Golden Gate, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, many a lesser Pacific port. Despite stiffened employer resistance and a labor position weakened by inter-union feuds, longshoremen were not quite willing to grant the outright guarantee against outlaw "quickies" which President Almon Roth of the Pacific Coast Waterfront Employers Association originally demanded. Instead the Bridges union agreed to punish contract violators by suspension or expulsion, to put disputed cases up to five permanent arbitrators, in no event to stop work while the new peace machinery functions. If, as Almon Roth publicly hopes, seagoing unions...
...Harkness office last week secretaries shooed away newshawks with their employer's rigid formula: Edward S. Harkness does not talk to the Press. But Lawrenceville's enthusiastic young Headmaster Allan Vanderhoeft Heely, who came from Andover two years ago to succeed the late Mather Almon ("The Bott") Abbott, told a story calculated to excite the envy of any U. S. educator. Benefactor Harkness had given $7,000,000 to Exeter for a Conference Plan, besides budgetary lifts to Andover, Hill, Choate. He had not thought of Lawrenceville until Headmaster Heely, after plotting unsuccessfully to get an introduction, seized...
Founded in 1810, Lawrenceville was reorganized in 1884 by the late James Cameron Mackenzie, who gave it one of the first U. S. "house plans." Lean years lay behind the school when Mather Almon Abbott took its headmastership in 1919. Halifax born and Oxford bred, "The Bott" had taught President Roosevelt at Groton, had been crew coach and Latin teacher at Yale, was big, ruddy, firm-willed. At Lawrenceville he upped scholarship and enrollment, turned everybody out for sports, started rowing and polo, opened a Lower School for boys under 14, established scholarships for British boys. His biggest & best jobs...
...carry it through the years, and that it would excite U. S. schoolboys to be associated, even remotely, with characters like Gene Tunney (retired), Barry Wood (Harvard) and Mai Stevens (Yale), Com-mander Fred G. Clark of the Crusaders last week paid a visit to Lawrenceville School. Headmaster Mather Almon Abbott, bluff and hearty, was glad to call his boys together to hear Crusader Clark's story ^that the Crusaders were going to start a Junior Division and had picked Lawrenceville to be, among 15,000 U. S. schools, the First Battalion. Whether or not the young gentlemen...