Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, Ernest Hamlin Abbott, 61, son of the late Rev. Lyman Abbott and his successor as editor-in-chief of The Outlook (1923-28), author (Religious Life in America, On the Training of Parents); at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson...
...game, and nobody knows how much this will come to, if collected. Amorous males may go to the fenced-in "Crib" guarded by three policemen, where girls are to be found at all hours. From 300 young women the "Crib" owners collect (according to Investigator Henry F. Pringle of Outlook and Independent) $2.50 a day, pay Reno only a property...
...year's campaign there appeared last week The Mirrors of 1932, another of those volumes reflecting (and reflecting upon) public characters who will march across the presidential stage toward the White House.* Though its author remains safely anonymous, most observers thought they recognized the sharp style, the acid outlook of Clinton Wallace Gilbert, Washington correspondent of the New York Evening Post and author (anonymously) of the Mirrors of Washington (1921), Behind the Mirrors...
Reports. Moved out of his Tower Building suite with its airy outlook and fine furniture, Chairman Wickersham last week hired out of his own pocket a tiny office with two second-hand desks and chairs in the Walker-Johnson Building, close to the White House. There with two assistants and a clerk he read proof on the Commission's unfinished reports. In 25 months the Commission had spent $475,000 of its $500.000 appropriation. It had made four reports to the President : 1) Prohibition (preliminary); 2) Prohibition (final); 3) crime statistics; 4) prosecutions...
...notable change has come over "Oggie" Mills since he entered the Treasury four years ago as the dictatorial, rather supercilious scion of a wealthy old family. Born 46 years ago at Newport, R. I. at the height of the social season, he inherited a background and outlook by no means favorable for a political career. His grandfather was Darius Ogden Mills who left a Buffalo bank for the 1849 gold rush, not as a prospector but as a hardheaded merchant and trader. Grandfather's first year's profit in California was $40,000. The Comstock Lode in Nevada made...