Word: cabots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Round-faced John Moore Cabot, 28, Harvard-Oxford graduate, Boston socialite secretary to the U. S. legation at Santo Domingo, crammed a dingy felt hat on his head, shook hands with his chief, U. S. Minister Charles B. Curtis, stepped into his runabout coupe, and raced snorting out of town...
Rebels were rising in the back country. That morning a wireless message had come through that revolutionists had captured the city of Santiago de los Caballeros, were advancing on the capital. Minister Curtis ordered Courier Cabot to Santiago de los Caballeros to find out what the leaders of the revolution wanted. One hundred and nine miles and a mountain range with peaks 10,000 feet high separate the city of Santo Domingo from Santiago de los Caballeros. The road, fortunately for Courier Cabot, has been recently improved. Disregarding possible bandits, sharpshooters, expecting every instant to strike a battle in full...
Open rebellion was declared fortnight ago by a group under the leadership of "Supreme Chief" Rafael Estrella Urena. It was to him that Courier Cabot raced...
...Hugh Cabot believes that teaching doctors should devote all their time to pedagogy, should eschew outside practice. The sentiment that a medical professor should be content to exchange a life of teaching with a moderate income for a career of practice with larger emoluments has grown, in the past few years, notably at Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Yale, Chicago, and Columbia. But when introduced a the University of Michigan, the notion was not well received. Faculty friction resulted. The Board of Regents met, pondered the situation, decided to demote Dr. Cabot. He still retains his Surgery Professorship at Michigan where...
...Hugh Cabot is the second eminent Harvard graduate forced to resign from his University of Michigan post within a year. The other was Clarence Cook Little, the university's president, whose administration policies the Board of Regents politically dislike. Dr. Little (a doctor of science, not of medicine) has returned to the genetics study of his youth. Also he is now director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer...